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Delacorte
February 2006
Featuring: Nathaniel McCormick
400 pages
ISBN: 0385338538
Hardcover
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Joshua Spanogle

Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s
headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from
medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut,
Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as
a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific
research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before
it is too late….

In Baltimore’s St. Raphael’s Hospital, three newly
admitted patients are among society’s most helpless
citizens: female residents of Baltimore’s group homes for
the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the
likes of which no one at St. Raphael’s has ever seen.

Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is one of the first on the scene.
A young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control,
Nate is paid to explore the bizarre, the exotic, and the
baffling–from superviruses to bioterrorism. But as soon as
Nate begins to investigate the lives and habits of the
victims, he knows something is terribly wrong. Using all
his skills as a medical detective, Nate soon zeroes in on
the “vector”–the one person who had sexual contact with
the first victims. And when that suspect is found
murdered, Nate fears that the disease he’s chasing may not
be an act of nature, but of man.

With his brash style angering his superiors and fellow
investigators alike, Nate turns to an old colleague and
former lover, Dr. Brooke Michaels, for help. Together the
two investigators follow a twisting trail of clues to a
discovery that is at once groundbreaking and unspeakable.
And as a circle of treachery tightens around him, Nate is
about to confront the most chilling revelation of all–and
a past Nate himself has been trying to escape.