Graeme Henson sits on a late night flight to Paris, and the world convulses. Millions flee an emerging plague. Governments mobilize for war. But they don't know the half of it. It's not a natural disease. And Graeme needs to stop the terrorists looking to spread it. Raised in poverty in a nowhere town in the American Southwest, Graeme finessed his way into a good university, then took his smarts to New York City, where he won wealth and success. Until he risked everything for a beautiful woman-and lost. Now a parolee practically owned by the government, Graeme is on that plane to Paris because he may be the only one who can get close to this terrorist cell conspiring to unleash disease, war, and death on a scale not seen in a century. If Graeme succeeds in his mission, he can make up for past mistakes. But this time it's his very life he's risking.