From the back cover: An unknown, incurable virus stalks the globe from Texas to Tangier, from Michigan to Macao, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Assigned to discover what lies behind the deadly epidemic, special agent Gabe Hinman risks everything-- his career, the love of his beautiful mistress, and ultimately his life-- in a manhunt that leads higher and higher in the Washington power structure. the door of the Oval Office itself...