British-born Teresa Simons, recently widowed, returns to England in the hope of coming to terms with her grief. Her husband Andy, an FBI agent, was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in a small Texas town, one hot day in June last year.Teresa arrives in Bulverton, a town on the south coast, sensing that in this run-down resort she might find some new understanding. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the place: Bulverton too suffered the horror of a gunman's spree, a massacre with haunting similarities to the murders in Texas, on the same hot day in June last year.Finding no explanation of the mystery, Teresa turns to the virtual-reality world of Extreme Experience. She had trained on ExEx in the US, a way of learning how to handle violent situations, but now ExEx has become commercially available. The best and worst of human experience can be found in virtual reality. Seeking the best, Teresa has to confront the worst. In the extremes of violence she finds that past and present combine, that her own future may be glimpsed. Read Less