Dr. Max Dent, a respected heart surgeon in Boston, was content to put his former life as an assassin for a foreign intelligence service behind him. When he agrees, reluctantly, to undertake one more mission, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and increasing danger. First, a group of college students in Atlanta fall fatally ill from a mysterious illness. Next, six men are found dead in a hotel in the Caribbean, with similar symptoms. As medical experts seek to understand this string of deaths, they begin to uncover a terrorist plot so intricate that Max and his girlfriend, Lilah, must join forces with international intelligence agencies to solve the mystery. Their mission brings them face to face with a threat unparalleled since the Holocaust. Max may be the world's best chance to stop it, if he can survive.
