Chapter 12: "Dear Mister Prime Minister..."

This is the chapter where things start to go wrong. Scorpia puts their operation, invisible sword, into place. They send a letter to the prime minister. The letter says that their client wants to change the balance of world power. The letter says that their client demands that America withdraw their troops from all countries, that they must deactivate the nuclear weapons systems, that 1 billion dollars be put into the World bank to be distributed to poor countries and that the president must resign immediately. The President must agree to the terms in three days or it is England that will pay the price. this is because England is "best friends" with America. The English are to persuade the President to do so. If they fail to do so, all English school children at 12:00 noon after the three days are up will die. The letter says that they will give a demonstration of their new weapon when the reserve soccer team arrives back from their tour this afternoon. The prime minister's adviser and Alan Blunt go to see if Scorpia follows through with heir plan. They do and nobody knows what caused it. The soccer team just dropped dead.