Veterinary virologist Jason Mitchell can’t retain his mouth close, can’t lie convincingly, and can’t stick to orders. He’s an not going candidate to assist the CIA find and wreck a dangerous hybrid virus stolen from Jason’s lab on the college of Minnesota. From Washington to Djibouti, From Minneapolis to Yemen, Marines balk, Senators flip furious, and CIA brokers shudder as Jason struggles to avoid the virus from turning into a organic weapon within the fingers of jihadists. Jason and Ann Hartman, veterinarians, enthusiasts, and graduate scholars, behavior a examine of BCV in calves, a typical virus that explanations diarrhea in farm animals. A lately arrived chinese language pupil by chance exposes the calves to the SARS virus, an in depth relative of BCV. The calves and the chinese language pupil increase a serious and difficult pneumonia. the guts for sickness keep an eye on (CDC) isolates a hybrid BCV-SARS virus from the chinese language pupil and the calves. The FBI is notified of the hot and hazardous virus. Ahmed, extra con guy than graduate scholar, discovers samples of Jason's that comprise the virus. He steals them and flees to Yemen the place he pretends to be a religious Muslim to get investment from a jihadist team. The jihadists think the virus could be useful as a organic weapon and as bait to trap the CIA into army motion that would kill blameless civilians and bring up hatred of the united states. Jason and an unconventional CIA agent redefine “thinking outdoor the field” as they con Ahmed, steer clear of bullets, and thwart the jihadists.