P.P.M.

THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS WITH 84 DEAD.In a remote village in Somalia, eighty-four people die without warning. There are no obvious signs of infection. No detectable virus. No explanation.Dr. Karl Frankton has seen Ebola, Marburg, SARS, and other deadly diseases before-but nothing like this.Then he discovers something even more disturbing.Years earlier, while working as a medical student at the FDA, Karl stumbled across a drug called M-13 and uncovered evidence that its test results had been falsified. His discovery destroyed his career, shattered his life, and forced him into a secret deal designed to bury the truth.Now, two years later, Karl is pulled back into the nightmare when another mysterious outbreak begins spreading across the globe.Governments panic. Scientists race against the clock. And powerful men will kill to keep the truth hidden.Hunted by the very people who should be protecting him, Karl joins forces with Dr. Mandu Thala, a veteran CDC pathologist who has his own reasons for distrusting the system. Together, they uncover a terrifying connection between a deadly rodenticide, an experimental scientific breakthrough, and an invisible killer that has been quietly spreading for decades.The death toll is exploding.The world’s most sophisticated laboratories can’t detect the killer.And the people responsible are already planning their escape.With governments collapsing, innocent people dying by the thousands, and an increasingly desperate manhunt closing in, Karl and Thala have only one chance: expose the conspiracy, find the antidote, and convince the world to listen before it is too late.P.P.M. is a fast-paced medical thriller and apocalyptic conspiracy novel filled with scientific mystery, government corruption, biological terror, and a race against extinction.When the invisible enemy finally reveals itself, the real question isn’t whether humanity can survive.It’s whether humanity will discover the truth in time.