Tunnel Author:Vernon Coleman Tunnel is set in the 1980's and it is the story of what happens to a group of people travelling by train through the Channel Tunnel between England and France. There is a spinster schoolteacher, a bitter and ageing squash champion and a publisher who has been smuggling pornographic pictures into France. There are two doctors returning from a con... more »ference, a female official from a European Bank, and a family returning from a reain-ruined caravan holiday, an art dealer travelling with his mistress, a male secretary and a computer expert who has left a dead prostitute behind in Paris. After an explotion this very mixed bunch of travellers is trapped together beneath the English Channel. While they struggle to escape, and a team of engineers fight against time to reach them, a power game is being played in Paris and Zurich. And in the compartment with the trapped survivors there is a threat so horrifying that its very existence must be denied. Tunnel, the story of tomorrow's Channel Tunnel disaster, is just the book to read on a long train journey - though perhaps not if your train journey will take you under the English Channel.« less