Alas, when five cancerous mice are injected with the nanophages, four survive but the fifth shrivels.

How to go about this? It seems that the Teller Institute, which the president will visit in three days to lend his support to medical research underway there, has developed nanophages, supertiny organisms about the size of ten atoms that can zip about a sick body and take out cancer cells, or any other infected cells. The big terrorist baddie now is the Lazarus Movement, an environmentalist group hijacked by a monster intent on-guess what?-wiping out most of the world and rising from the dead to rule the remainder living. Smith works for Covert-One, the president’s personal secret intelligence agency, although this time out Jon says he’s on detached duty with the Pentagon. Fifth entry in the Ludlum fiction factory’s Covert-One series, this time from notes fleshed out by historical novelist Larkin ( Passing Judgment, 1996, etc.).Īgain on hand is Colonel Jon Smith, M.D., specialist in infectious diseases who chases down bad bugs meant to destroy large populations when delivered by a typical Ludlum terrorist group intent on taking over very large sections of the world.

Vendetta world at war