The murder of a Russian colleague sends Lt. Colonel Jon Smith, a medical researcher, and his colleagues at Covert-One on the quest to find the terrorists threatening to steal Russia's remaining store of deadly smallpox virus before they can unleash an epidemic on the world's population. Original. 75,000 first printing.
Robert Ludlum is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-four novels published in thirty-two languages and forty countries. Read by hundreds of millions world-wide, his books include
The Prometheus Deception, The Bourne Identity, The Icarus Agenda, and
The Chancellor Manuscript. He divides his time between Florida and Montana.
Philip Shelby is a screenwriter and novelist whose numerous books include the bestselling novels Days of Drums, Last Rites, and The Gatekeeper. He lives in Los Angeles, California.