Pristine water—hidden
for millions of years, untouched by pollution, and possessing natural
healing powers—is found miles under Antarctic ice. The scientists who
make this astonishing discovery stand to win worldwide acclaim and earn
billions. While people around the world line up for a taste of the
therapeutic water, a cluster of new cases of mad cow disease
explodes in a rural French province. Dr. Noah Haldane and his World
Health Organization team are urgently summoned.
Fresh from a
brush with a pandemic flu, Noah recognizes the deadliness of a prion—the
enigmatic microscopic protein responsible for mad cow disease—that
kills with the speed and ferocity of a virus. Despite intense
international pressure to declare the outbreak a random occurrence, Noah
suspects that factors other than nature have ignited the prion’s spread
among animals and people in France. Facing a spate of
disappearances and unexplained deaths, Noah uncovers a conspiracy that
stretches from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Beverly Hills, and from the
North to the South Pole. He soon realizes that the scientific find of
the century—a lake the size of Lake Superior buried three miles under
Antarctica—might hold the key to a microscopic Jurassic Park.
With a billion-dollar industry hanging on his silence, Noah has to stay alive long enough to sound the alarm.
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