Audio Book Description:
When a Muslim cleric predicts planes will fall from the sky,America braces for a terroristattack. But when the prediction proves true, the real causeis far more terrifying: a microbe that eats oil, effectively destroying all gas-operated mechanisms. Gillette, an epidemiologist at the Centers forDisease Control, understands the devastation that the microbe could wreak. But his far more chilling theory is thatthe microbe is synthetic andthe work of terrorists. When noone will listen, Gillette must take it upon himself tostop the epidemic only he can foresee. As the world`seconomy grinds to a crashing halt, Gillette race against the clock to find the sourceof the microbe and its antidote.