"Reiss, a Hollywood screenwriter, has created a true page-turner of pell-mell
action and momentum, already in production as a movie."--Publishers Weekly

This gripping, high-concept thriller about a virus that is eating the world's oil supply is
reminiscent of Michael Crichton's best.

When a Muslim cleric predicts planes will fall from the sky, America braces for a terrorist
attack. But when the prediction proves true, the real cause is far more terrifying: a microbe
that eats oil, effectively destroying all gas-operated mechanisms. Gillette, an epidemiologist
at the Centers for Disease Control, understands the devastation that the microbe could wreak.
But his far-more-chilling theory is that the microbe is synthetic and the work of terrorists.
When no one will listen, Gillette must take it upon himself to stop the epidemic only he can
foresee. As the world's economy grinds to a crashing halt, Gillette races against the clock
to find the source of the microbe and its antidote.