Whiteout Paperback - 2008

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 converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company's director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus—but he isn't the only one: His grown children, who have come to spend Christmas, have their eyes on the money it will bring; Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; a local television reporter, determined to move up, has sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs is on its way to steal it for a client already waiting—though what the client really has in mind is something that will shock them all.

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 to a class by himself. - (from the Publisher)

Details

• Title Whiteout
• Author Ken Follett
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 416
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Date 2008-12-02
• Features Price on Product - Canadian
• ISBN 9780451225146 / 0451225147
• Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
• Dimensions 9.02 x 5.96 x 0.9 in (22.91 x 15.14 x 2.29 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Themes
  • Cultural Region: British
• Library of Congress subjects Scotland, Suspense fiction
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC