By: Patrick Larkin
Covert-One #6
Genre: Thriller
St. Martin's Press
February 1, 2006
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Featuring: Lt. Col. Jon Smith
464 pages
ISBN: 0312990715
EAN: 9780312990718
Paperback
Book Summary
THE MOSCOW VECTOR
At an international
conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research
doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an
agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian
colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned
about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and
about the Russian government’s refusal to release publicly
any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet,
they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko
is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith
barely escapes with his life.
At the same time, a
series of government officials around the world are coming
down with a mysterious, fast-acting virus with a 100%
fatality rate. These deaths are somehow related to the
increasing militarism from the new Russian government,
headed by the autocratic and ambitious President Victor
Dudarev. With few clues and precious little time, Smith and
Covert-One must unravel this mysterious plot and find the
mysterious figure who stands at the center of it all…