Pandemic
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491_9781940026091
Reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.-The GuardianExperience the pulse-pounding thriller that will change everything you think you know about pandemics. And might save your life.Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.A deadly pandemic has begun...But this outbreak is different. It may alter the human race forever-and reveal a shocking truth about humanitys future. The race is on to stop it.A hundred miles north of Alaska, an American Coast Guard vessel discovers a sunken submarine at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. It has no national identification and doesnt match the records of any known vessel. Deep within, researchers find evidence of a scientific experiment that will rewrite our basic understanding of the human race.In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDCs leading epidemiologist, shes among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. Its a lonely and dangerous job, but its her life-and shes good at it. This time, she may have met her match.In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at deaths door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO. What they find in the remote village is beyond their worst fears. As she traces the origin of the pathogen, Peyton begins to believe that there is more to this outbreak-that it may be merely the opening act in a conspiracy with far reaching consequences.In Berlin, Desmond Hughes awakens in a hotel room with no memory of how he got there or who he is. On the floor, he finds a dead security guard from an international pharmaceutical company. His only clue leads him to Peyton Shaw-a woman who seems to know him, but refuses to tell him how. With the police searching the city for him, Desmond desperately tries to piece together what happened to him. To his shock and horror, he learns that he may be involved in causing the
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