Deadly Pages

Leslie Norins, MD, PhD, with the help of Thomas Hauck, turns decades of medical research and infectious disease experience into a riveting fictional thriller about smallpox bioterrorism.

Porter Goss, former Director of the CIA, comments: "This assessment of the danger of smallpox seems credible to me.." Sir Gustav Nossal, a leading Australian medical scientist, reviewed: "A masterly suspense novel with a credible scenario by a medical scientist who really knows what he is talking about. A compulsive must-read." Though eradicated worldwide in 1980, smallpox poses a very real threat to national security today. No longer protected by group immunity, Americans are vulnerable to biological attack by enemies spreading the virus.

In Deadly Pages, retired US Army and CDC officer Dr. Martin Riker must deal with such a threat. Brought out of retirement to investigate the death of a Syrian man who dies of smallpox, Riker traces the deadly virus back to a terrorist cell. Charged with infiltrating the network, he discovers they obtained the virus from a rogue Russian who cultivates biological agents in an abandoned pharmaceutical plant. Now, the cell plans to send the virus to the United States and put it right into the hands of unsuspecting Americans.

From New York City to Syria and back again, Deadly Pages follows Dr. Riker's race to stop the dissemination of a disease with the power to kill 70 percent of the population.

Masterfully plotted and brilliantly researched, this novel will keep you glued to the page until the very end.