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Jon Smith, a Covert‑One operative, and Randi Russell, a CIA undercover agent, discover that an assassinated Russian medical officer possessed files revealing a global bioterror plot. A Serbian terrorist, dispatched from Russia, steals a lethal bacterial strain and plans to deliver it to an American government agent. With two men murdered and the dangerous pathogen stolen, Smith and Russell race to locate the madman, prevent the release of the weapon, and stop a catastrophe capable of rendering the human race extinct.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Thriller/Medical Thriller
Authors: Robert Ludlum
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