Publisher's Synopsis
Robert Ludlum's Covert-One is back. Lt. Colonel Jon Smith is working as a medical researcher when he's contacted by a Russian colleague with an urgent request that they meet in Venice. When they do, the Russian is killed almost instantly in a hail of automatic gunfire - but not before passing on the vital intelligence: someone is out to steal Russia's store of the smallpox virus. The deadliest of viruses, Smallpox will be disastrous if unleashed on the population at large. Smith, with his colleagues at Covert-One, must prevent the virus from being stolen. But his adversaries are several steps ahead and now he must find and stop the conspirators before they loose Armageddon upon the world.
