"What theyre going to do, I would never have believed it. Its insanity!" They were the last words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russias security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassins bullets. Now Covert-Ones Jon Smith has Dankos classified papers, and hes unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy. A Serb terrorist has been despatched from Russia to smuggle hazardous vials of a deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: to deliver them to an unknown US government agent. Then both men are murdered, and the deadly bacteria is stolen...Its up to Lt Col Smith to find the madman who possesses it, before he holds a defenceless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.