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Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked and something even more horrific is set free. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing...

Forensic pathologists Dr. Jack Stapleton and Dr. Laurie Montgomery, investigating two seemingly disparate cases, come to realize that Jack's anthrax victim, and Laurie's tortured skinhead are only a small part of a dangerous plot to unleash a devastating bioweapon on the United States.

When a rogue state plots to unleash a genetically mutated virus, the Taskforce counterterrorism unit under Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill follows a dangerous trail across Southeast Asia to the United States. The chosen virus release method, one of the Black Widows, female suicide terrorists of Chechen descent, have a reputation for slaughter that rivals any other group, but the enemy the Taskforce operators face may not be the enemy they should fear....

This story tells an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil.

The nation's leading expert on biological terrorism reveals our startling vulnerability to bio-weapon attack and presents a strategy for protecting ourselves and our way of life from this unprecedented threat.

Deputy Sheriff Buster Thornton brings the tactics of the old-west into play as he searches in Las Vegas and Chicago for clues, but he soon learns that his own life is in jeopardy when he gets too close to solving the murder and the mysterious cattle virus epidemic.