Outbreak

Resource Information

The work Outbreak represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Outbreak

Statement of responsibility

Frank Gardner

Creator

• Gardner, Frank, 1961-

Author

• Gardner, Frank, 1961-

Subject

• Great Britain, MI6 -- Fiction
• Great Britain, MI6 -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
• Suspense fiction
• Biological arms control -- Fiction
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Biological weapons -- Fiction

Genre

• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Suspense fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Deep within the Arctic Circle, three environmental scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard landscape in search of shelter. There's a cabin ahead. It appears abandoned. No lights. No snowmobile outside. But as they push the door open, the smell hits them, rank and foetid. There's something bad inside. Then there's movement. A man lies slumped, his face disfigured by livid pustules. Blood runs from his nostrils; his chest glistens blackly. As the team's medic, Dr Sheila Mackenzie, pushes forward to examine him, the convulsions start. Blood, bile and mucus spray into the air. The doctor knows it's too late -- she's been contaminated. Within hours, a full-scale operation to contain this contagion is underway. Samples are rushed to the laboratories at Porton Down on high alert. What they discover changes everything. Supported by phone and data intercepts, British Intelligence reaches a terrifying conclusion: that Russia has been developing a new generation of bio-weapons. Dispatched to investigate, MI6's Luke Carlton finds himself on a serpentine trail of lies and deception. From a mysterious factory in Lithuania, via arrest and imprisonment, and ultimately back to Britain, he discovers that they've been looking in the wrong place all along..

Cataloging source

SALS

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult