Subliminal 2 - Messiah

It is 2058, only a short time after the death of Elliot Mason, the man who made and then destroyed the extreme right wing British National Union's grip on British politics. Elliot Mason was always convinced that his use of modulated Subliminal Imprinting (SI) was at the root of what made the election of the British National Union in 2025 possible, and led to what became known as the 'Fascist Interval'. But many subsequent scientific investigations indicated that SI was wholly ineffective, and could never have played a part in any apparent successful application of SI. And yet, many of the prominent scientists involved in disproving the application of the so-called Delta modulated SI still have worries; that regardless of a lack of proof that Delta SI had the effect expected, there were still anomalous psychological outcomes from the investigations.When one of them persuades the government to give yet another dispensation to allow further research, it is in order to establish a way of negating the effect of SI. Permission is given to attempt to counter the chance of an effective use of SI, at risk of being found by foreign research teams pursuing the same interest. However, as the new research programme starts, one of the research team, a devout Christian, harbours a grudge against his old church, its elders and its congregation. His church had created a deliberate antipathy towards him after a theological question had been answered by him in a deeply unorthodox way. When, after some time, he stumbles on the method of making modulated SI highly effective, he decides not to disclose it until, as a punishment, he imprints his old church congregation with the notion that he is blessed and of divine standing. Unfortunately his approach is deeply flawed and he comes to be viewed as the new Messiah; the result being a countrywide religious uprising that disrupts life and moves the nation towards civil war. There is only one remedy - give the 'Messiah men' what they want. But even that proves disastrous.