Whiteout

aAn adrenaline-pumping thrillera("Associated Press") from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling authorafirst time in trade paperback. A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparksajealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, and rivalriesacrackle, with desperate secrets revealed, and hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, "Whiteout" rockets Follett into a class by himself.