MY FIRST WRITING project for my GreenScarf idea, worked on for several years, is to look at the modern fact that technology advances war -- think air war, the A bombs, now drones -- and war advances technology.

It centers on one individual, a woman. Mrs Nathalie Armstrong, who works underground, in scientific espionage.

An American journalist, Travis Rutland, of the newsweekly NOW! throws down the gauntlet.

Rutland is the GreenScarf man and he writes about 'science' with the view that there is often a dark side to what is heralded as modern progress. Hence his GoodScience-BadScience concept.

Military success often depends on the latest weaponry, think poison gas of the 1914-18 war, the first air bombing of civilians, submarines, tanks, even new mobility as horse power gave way to petrol driven military transport.

Germany is rearming -- February 1938... Austria is taken over two weeks after publication. Is the anti-fascist world able to take on the most powerful scientific nation in the world? Are the US -- and, by extension, Britain -- prepared, notably, with weapons exploiting the newest technology, weapons by rays or atoms or mass bombing....?

Two individuals with British-American ties focus on Britain. Britain has: 1) world beating science and 2) a political establishment that is not educated in science and may be dismissive. Are the British ready....? Hence the reluctant, then successful hiring of Nathalie Armstrong.

So much British secrecy protects this 'high tech' war research that it is impossible to be certain if it is rightly focused. As she is briefed, secrecy can used to hide bad work or wrong priorities just as much as good work or appropriate priorities.

What follows is her saga..... Her twisted story leads her to cross lines, to jail, falsely accused of counter spying  and to wonder, with Rutland, what kind of world has been created....