2040. Britain is at war - with itself. A military dictatorship rules from London. There is only one TV channel - English TV - controlled by the government. Overhead, in geostationary orbit, squats Eurocom One, a space station run by joint European and Russian big business, from whom the British government has rented space for secret experiments on population and crowd control. Compulsory identity cards are a reality. Information in them is unknown to the bearer. It can be altered to suit the government's purposes. In the south, on the Isle of Wight, is a huge concentration camp of economic migrants waiting to be forcibly shipped home. In the West is fortress Anglesey, an island wide prison for political prisoners. The East End of London is flooded, following a massive swell in the North Sea in the winter of 2039. The sea level has risen, drowning parts of the south coast. On Guernsey, buried deep in the caves tunnelled by the Nazis in the second World War, is Project Alpha. A man wakes up in a military prison hospital. 20 years have been a wiped from his memory. He is a 40 year old man with the memories of a man in his twenties. Sprung from captivity by people who claim he is their leader, but dubbed terrorists by the government, he is given the chance to recover his lost years - at a price. He is the only one to have penetrated Project Alpha.. If only he could remember what he'd done...... We are what we remember. The Janus Effect is a thrilling novel of a future Britain, one that could too easily come true.
