Whiteout
<b>"Everyone likes a page-turner, and Follett is the best." —<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i><br /><br />"A hell of a storyteller" (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>), #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new novel. But nothing matches the intricate knife-edge drama of <i>Whiteout</i>. . . .</b> <br /><br /> A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. <br />  <br /> As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks—jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries—crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, <i>Whiteout</i> rockets Follett into a class by himself.