‘Chinese Puzzle’ is a ‘what if’ conspiracy thriller expanded from an original outline script for a film straddling the world of competitive medical research, international politics and big business. The fiction set sometime in the future, takes place simultaneously on three continents over a three month period. Post Iraq and Afghanistan another continent, Africa, faces catastrophic civil war in part provoked by terrorist infiltration of Muslim controlled territory, namely Somalia, The Yemen and East Africa.
As a mysterious endemic threatens Europe, political allies propagate the myth that a recent outbreaks of avian and swine flu in China is responsible.
Set against a backdrop of Global warming and climate change, and another global financial
crisis, the narrative explores violent passions and ill-
