Historians of medicine have suggested...that every pathoGenic agent has its own history, which runs parallel to that of its victims and that the evolution of disease largely depends on change, and sometimes mutations, in the agents themselves.

The body of the man lay frozen in the Alaskan wilderness for nearly eighty years, encased in a thick layer of ice, until uncovered by a lone trapper. How could the trapper know that by excavating the corpse he might possibly doom the world? For within the frozen flesh lies a dormant danger waiting to be awakened, a highly contagious virus for which there is no known cure.

As the epidemic and the panic spread across the globe, millions will die a terrible death, their blood thickened in their veins. And one scientist will struggle to solve the riddle of the plague, to unravel a medical mystery that threatens mankind ... and to uncover a conspiracy of greed, madness and murder.