Prion

An exciting new fiction thriller where fear has no boundaries. Several world-renowned scientists in the field of synthetic biology have been brutally murdered. The FBI launches an investigation to recover the remaining scientist, a Nobel laureate who has made extraordinary breakthroughs in understanding of prions--infectious renegade proteins that are capable of causing rapid and nearly universally fatal brain disorders. Special Agent Liz Holder, heading up the FBI counterterrorism unit, recruits Dr. Aurelio Galvano, an ex-Special Ops physician with expertise in weapons of mass destruction. The killings are ultimately linked to a sophisticated and secretive Islamic fundamentalist terror organization working to gain access to America's most closely kept secrets. While high-level government officials pull out all the stops to keep their involvement hidden at any cost, Liz and Aurelio chase leads around the world to stop an unprecedented attack on the West that aims to redefine the meaning of terror.