01574nam a22002057a 4500 20230807100030.0 230807b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780752877037 AL eng 23 813.54 LUDW Robert Ludlums 129581 Moscow vector London Orion Books 2005 407p. PB 18x11.5cm. At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government's refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet, they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely escapes with his life. At the same time, a series of government officials around the world are coming down with a mysterious, fast-acting virus with a 100% fatality rate. These deaths are somehow related to the increasing militarism from the new Russian government, headed by the autocratic and ambitious President Victor Dudarev. With few clues and precious little time, Smith and Covert-One must unravel this mysterious plot and find the mysterious figure who stands at the center of it all Literature American Fiction 129582 Larkin, Patrick 129583 ddc BK 228229 228229 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAENG SACPG SACPG 2023-08-05 0 813.54 LUDW PG007928 2023-08-07 00:00:00 2023-08-07 BK