From the ancient ruins beneath Mount Vesuvius, a two-thousand-year-old document has emerged. It is the only text ever attributed to the ambitious, inquisitive, and cryptic last pharaoh of Egypt...
When her Nobel laureate husband is murdered, biologist Katrina Stone can no longer ignore the secrecy that increasingly pervaded his behavior in recent weeks. Her search for answers leads to a two-thousand-year-old medical mystery and the esoteric life of one of history’s most enigmatic women. Following the trail forged by her late husband, Katrina must separate truth from legend as she chases medicine from ancient Italy and Egypt to a clandestine modern-day war. Her quest will reveal a legacy of greed and murder and resurrect an ancient plague, introducing it into the twenty-first century.
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An anonymous warning is sent to the White House, and a genetically engineered biological weapon is released in a California prison. The unpublished data of biologist Katrina Stone may hold the key to harnessing the lethal bacterium—and to its creation within the desperate world from which biotechnology is born.
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2028. Campania, Italy. With Mount Vesuvius raging nearby, a revitalized Naples celebrates the end of a two-hundred-year tyranny, the reign of the camorra. But the final vengeance of the Naples mafia appears to have been unveiled when a deadly contagion surfaces from beneath the volcanic fallout. Still reeling from the atrocities of 2023 and the murder of her husband at camorra hands, biologist Katrina Stone plunges into a relentless hunt to finally annihilate her bitter enemies. As she chases the masterminds behind the attack, Katrina is thrust onto an ancient path that traces a conflict as old as humankind. Her pursuit leads from the camorra to the pharaohs, from the crypts of Rome to the birthplace of Egypt and to modern-day London—and into the depths of a blood-soaked movement that is growing more powerful every day.
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