"Abandon all fossil fuels or face an unstoppable plague."

In the wake of the Baghdad disaster, President Amy Coffman is battling to get her administration back on track when eco-terrorists threaten to unleash a gruesome contagion, one that transforms ordinary people into blood-thirsty savages.

Unless the world dials the clock back two hundred years.

Either way, billions will die. As the US military-industrial complex mobilises to neutralise the terrorists, Coffman and her allies discover a new and unexpected opportunity - weaponise the virus and seize ultimate power.

But first, the dominoes have to fall. The targets are global cities with teeming populations, and Coffman intends to watch them all burn as the horrifying pandemic spreads across the planet.

Unless she can be stopped. But doing so might set the world on a far darker and dangerous path than anyone can imagine.

And humanity is running out of time.