Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson. Her kids have their ups and downs,
but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project
at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief
of surgery at Tampa City Hospital. The sense of tranquility is disrupted
when she is drawn into the diagnosis of the first case of HIV/AIDS seen
in Tampa. But the challenge of this new disease is dwarfed by the
disaster that impacts Laura's life a few days later. A highly resistant
bacterial infection is raging in the surgical intensive care unit, and
patients are dying. To make matters worse, Laura's daughter is exposed
to the bacteria and begins to show symptoms. Desperate at this point,
Laura calls her young friend, Dr. Stacy Jones, at the CDC in Atlanta.
Stacy arrives in Tampa, unaware that a deadly plot is underway in
Atlanta as a covert white supremacist cell plans an unthinkable attack
on a massive scale. Caught in the middle, Laura and Stacy encounter an
opportunity to connect the Tampa nightmare with the impending Atlanta
devastation. But can they prevent it?
