As a Christmas blizzard worsens, the emotional sparks-jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries-crackle, desperate secrets are revealed, hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge.
Signet
October 2005
496 pages ISBN: 0451215710 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
A canister of the deadly Madoba-2 virus has gone missing
from a Scottish medical research lab. On Christmas Eve, in
a howling blizzard, several people with a keen interest in
the virus converge on a remote family house.
Stanley Oxenford, the research company’s director, has
everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the
virus. His grown children have their eyes on the money it
will bring. Toni Gallo, the lab's security director, has
her career in the balance; a local television reporter has
sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell
it; and a violent trio of thugs is on its way to steal it
for a client – though what the client has in mind will
shock them all ...
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