A crippled North Korean peasant staggers across miles of icy terrain to tell an astonishing tale of a village decimated by disease -- and how the military massacred everyone to contain it. The horrific story portends the possible resurgence of a deadly virus that killed more than fifty million people eighty years ago.
Soon a covert scientific expedition is dispatched to extract the viral isolates from the lung tissues of miners who succumbed to that lethal strain of flu in 1918 -- and to create a vaccine. But a shocking discovery awaits the researchers. And when an investigative reporter delves into the increasingly disturbing events, he finds himself pursuing the most dangerous story of his life.... Less
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