Outbreak: a terrifyingly real thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author
Frank Gardner - Outbreak: a terrifyingly real thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author
Art Nr.: 1787630684
ISBN 13: 9781787630680
B-Nr: INF1001324692
SubTitle: a terrifyingly real thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author
Release Year: 2021
Published by: Bantam Press
Cover: paperback
Cover Format: 235x155x32
Pages: 416
Weight: 504 g
Language: Englisch
Author: Frank Gardner
Warengruppe: Hardcover/Belletristik/Spannung
Beschreibung:
\*\*\*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\*\*\*
The explosive new thriller featuring MI6 operative Luke Carlton on his most terrifying mission yet.
Deep within the Arctic Circle, three scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard in search of shelter. They see a cabin ahead. It appears abandoned. No lights. No snowmobile outside. But as they push open the door, the smell hits them. Rank and foetid: there's something bad inside.
Then movement. A man lies slumped, his face disfigured by livid pustules. Blood runs from his nostrils his chest glistens blackly. The team's medic, Dr Sheila Mackenzie, pushes forward to examine him when 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 . . .
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Autoreninformationen:
Gardner, Frank<p>Born in 1961, Frank Gardner is the BBC's Security Correspondent, reporting for television and radio on issues of domestic and international security, notably on Islamist extremist related terrorism. A fluent Arabist, with a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, he was previously the BBC's Middle East Correspondent based in Cairo, and before that in Dubai. In June 2004, while reporting in Riyadh, Frank and his cameraman, Simon Cumbers, were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright, Frank was shot multiple times and left for dead. Against all expectations, he survived and, in 2006, published his acclaimed and bestselling memoir, <i>Blood and Sand. </i>In 2009 he published <i>Far Horizons</i>, a much praised account of his life as an inveterate traveller and explorer. His first novel, the thriller <i>Crisis</i>, was a No.1 bestseller. Awarded an OBE for services to journalism, Frank has also written for the <i>Economist, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph</i> and <i>Time Out</i> and has been published in <i>The Best of </i>Sunday Times <i>Travel Writing. <br></i>He lives in London with his family.</p>