Barclay's head lolled to face the inside and the woman passenger gasped.
"His eyes," she stammered. "Look at them! They're bleeding! For God's sake, do something. Just what is it, Doctor?" she hissed. "What's wrong with him?"
"I think it's Haemorrhagic Fever," replied Palmer, clearly shaken. "We must wash."
When a traveller dies on a flight from Africa to London, bleeding profusely, the Ebola virus is blamed. Steven Dunbar of the Sci-Med Directorate investigates and discovers that this outbreak cannot be blamed on Ebola, and that other people, completely unrelated to the first victim, are falling ill and dying. Somewhere there is a link. Somehow the wildcards are related.
As more and more people throughout the British Isles succumb to the virus, politicians equivocate and scientists attempt to find a seemingly impossible answer. Beginning to question his own belief in medicine, and in his role as a doctor, Steven comes closer to the terrifying, unbelievable and shocking truth.
From "Scotland's own Michael Crichton" comes another shocking thriller of medicine, science and corruption.