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Dr Elena Gladstone is an scientist. After hundreds of experiments she discovers that emotions, such as an animal’s fear, produce a substance in the brain which can be isolated, purified and intensified, and then injected into the bloodstream of another animal . . . to produce exactly the same emotion.

She has never published any of her research. In the back of her mind she has always known that there was a profit to be turned from it, which she knows would relate to how much she knew and ho...