For Conor O'Neil, security director of a large Fifth Avenue store, the hot summer day holds no warning of the nightmare which is about to engulf him. After a lethal robbery, Conor, who's been wrongfully arrested for the crime by a bent cop, goes on the run. He discovers that an eerie pair of stage hypnotists, a fervent Southern Baptist, and a very sinister televangelist are involved in the heist, the proceeds of which are to bankroll something unthinkable yet all too possible.
Conor's desperate need to avert a worldwide catastrophe and at the same time clear his name takes him on a terrifying journey by raft and ravine to a Norwegian settlement in the Arctic Ocean. Here some of the victims of a former deadly plague are buried - and here, too, an implacable opponent awaits him, armed with what could be the most devastating weapon of all . . .
