Category:
Adults,
Suspense,
ThrillerLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
blizzard Deadly Virus Scottish Medical Research FirmWritten by Ken Follett
Read by Josephine Bailey
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
· Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
· Release date: 01-21-05
Publisher:2004 Penguin Audio
A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.
As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks—jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries—crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, Whiteout rockets Follett into a class by himself.
“A romance between the recently widowed Stanley and Toni and the unexpected addition of Toni’s comically addled mother thicken the plot as Follett’s agonizingly protracted, nail-biter ending drags readers to the very edge of their seats and holds them captive until the last villain is satisfactorily dispatched