Deep within the Arctic Circle, three environmental scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard landscape in search of shelter. There's a cabin ahead. It appears abandoned. No lights. No snowmobile outside. But as they push the door open, the smell hits them, rank and foetid. There's something bad inside. Then there's movement. A man lies slumped, his face disfigured by livid pustules. Blood runs from his nostrils; his chest glistens blackly. As the team's medic, Dr Sheila Mackenzie, pushes forward to examine him, the convulsions start. Blood, bile and mucus spray into the air. The doctor knows it's too late -- she's been contaminated. Within hours, a full-scale operation to contain this contagion is underway. Samples are rushed to the laboratories at Porton Down on high alert. What they discover changes everything. Dispatched to investigate, MI6's Luke Carlton finds himself on a serpentine trail of lies and deception. From a mysterious factory in Lithuania, via arrest and imprisonment, and ultimately back to Britain, he discovers that they've been looking in the wrong place all along...
Outbreak
Year
2022
Pages
464
Description
Deep within the Arctic Circle, three environmental scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard landscape in search of shelter. There's a cabin ahead. It appears abandoned. No lights. No snowmobile outside. But as they push the door open, the smell hits them, rank and foetid. There's something bad inside. Then there's movement. A man lies slumped, his face disfigured by livid pustules. Blood runs from his nostrils; his chest glistens blackly. As the team's medic, Dr Sheila Mackenzie, pushes forward to examine him, the convulsions start. Blood, bile and mucus spray into the air. The doctor knows it's too late -- she's been contaminated. Within hours, a full-scale operation to contain this contagion is underway. Samples are rushed to the laboratories at Porton Down on high alert. What they discover changes everything. Dispatched to investigate, MI6's Luke Carlton finds himself on a serpentine trail of lies and deception. From a mysterious factory in Lithuania, via arrest and imprisonment, and ultimately back to Britain, he discovers that they've been looking in the wrong place all along...
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