Quote:🌞 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sinister act of bioterrorism spreads a deadly epidemic across America in this "spine-tingling" (Denver Post) novel from the "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times).

After he loses first his midwestern ophthalmology practice to a for-profit medical giant and then his family to a commuter airline tragedy, Dr. John Stapleton's life is transformed to ashes. Feeling less the golden boy than a jaded cynic, Stapleton retrains in forensic pathology and relocates to find an uneasy niche for himself that suits his changed perspective: the cold, indifferent, concrete maze of New York.

Stapleton thinks he is past pain and past caring, but as a series if virulent and extremely lethal illnesses-capped by a particularly deadly outbreak of a rare strain of influenza-strikes the young, the old, and the innocent, his suspicions are aroused. When the...