Final Epidemic — Earl Merkel

At first, they think it is a common cold or maybe the flu.

Then people start dropping where they stand.

It can kill in hours, its victims drowning in their own bodily fluids.

There is no known cure, no vaccine, and the only antidote could kill millions.

FINAL EPIDEMIC has begun.

New York and Florida are quarantined. International travel is halted. A Japanese doomsday cult commits mass suicide, its final mission accomplished. Physician Carol Mayer was the first person to alert the Centers for Disease Control, but now as the epidemic grows, she has only one hope for finding a vaccine: Beck Casey, former CIA expert on biological warfare. The trouble is, his potential allies to save the future are the worst enemies from his past…