Book description
Jon Smith is attending a W. H.O. conference in The Hague on infectious
diseases and wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him.
Smith neutralizes the shooter, and finds three pictures in the
assassin's pocket: one of an unknown woman, one of Peter Howell, his
friend and a former agent with Britain's MI6, and one of him. When Smith
tries to leave the hotel, he encounters a second group of terrorists in
the process of attacking it.
The hotel is not the only target in The Hague. Within minutes of
Smith's narrow escape, bombs go off at the train station, airport and at
the headquarters of the International Court of Justice, where a
Pakistani warlord, Oman Dattar, is being held while he is tried for
crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos, Dattar escapes.
Dattar has learned of a new strain of bioelectric bacteria that can
grow electrical wires as a form of cilia. These cilia connect with
another metallic source and can transmit and transport themselves via
electric current. These bacteria are carried to the W. H.O. conference
in preparation for an international consortium of biologists convened to
study them, along with other strains of deadly bacteria. Dattar arranges
for his men to steal the bacteria and use them to bring down the West
once and for all. Can Jon Smith stop him? Robert Ludlum launched his
career as a bestselling writer with THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE in 1971,
the first of a string of international bestsellers. There are more than
300 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated
in 32 languages.
