Audio Book Description:
A missing canister of deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes.Toni Gallo, thesecurity director of a Scottish medical research fiarm, knowsshe has problems but she has noidea of the nightmare to come. As the Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several peopleconverge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company`sdirector, has every-thing riding on the drug heis developing to fight the virusbut he isn`t the only one. His grown children, who have cometo spend Christmas, havetheir eyes on the money it willbring; Toni Gallo, forced toresign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keep-ing the drug safe; a local television reporter, determined to move up, hassniffed the story and to tell it is willing to bend the facts; and a violenttrio of thugs is on its way to steal it for a client already waiting - thoughwhat the client really has in mind is something that will shock them all. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks - jealousy, distrust, sexualattraction, rivalry - crackle; desperatesecrets are revealed; hidden trators andunexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, Whiteoutrockets Follett to a class by himself.