For over thirty years Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. In 2000 Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor the first novel in his exciting Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the worlds greatest storyteller.

What theyre going to do I never would have believed it. Its insanity! They were the final words spoken by Yuri Danko an officer in the medical division of Russias security service before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassins bullets. In possession of Dankos classified papers Covert-One operative Jon Smith and CIA undercover agent Randi Russell have unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy that threatens to unleash a plague of immeasurable proportions. A Serb terrorist has been dispatched from Russia to spirit hazardous vials of deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: deliver it to an unknown American government agent-- a shadowy figure whose own motives for acquiring the bioweapon are made all the more unfathomable when both men are found murdered and the strain is stolen. Now Smith and Russell must track it down find the madman who possesses it and stop him before he holds a defenseless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.

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