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Chuck Hogan's new thriller opens as Drs. Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are summoned deep in to the rain forests of the Congo, where a deadly virus -- set free from a centuries-old uranium cave -- has decimated a mining camp. Desperate, they bomb the area, resealing the cave containing the incurable disease. But 2 yrs later, it reappears, devastating the tiny New England town of Plainville. Within the next few years, other isolated incidents are also ruthlessly silenced by Maryk, now head of the Bureau for Disease Control's (BDC) Special Pathogens Section. He and Pearse, now director of the BDC, have grown to be bitter enemies, divided by opposing scientific philosophies. Still, as the virus is constantly on the elude any vaccine with a disturbingly human cunning the men seek not only to stop it but to figure out how it came from Africa. Their battle with "Plainville" intensifies as it becomes clear that the virus has acquired a face, having bought out a human host. And specifically, this toxic creature pursues one brave young woman whose blood, immune to the virus, is the serum of life when confronted with a viral death. Pearse and Maryk keep her close and protected, while formulating an idea to access the killer first.
