Deadly Pages - Hauck, Thomas

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Résumé :
When a Syrian man arrives in the United States and then dies of the smallpox virus, officials call Dr. Martin Riker out of retirement. A former US Army officer and expert at the CDC, Riker must figure out where the virus came from -- and if there is any danger of it spreading -- or if anyone is purposefully spreading the once-eradicated scourge. -- Page 4 of cover.

Biographie:

Leslie Norins, MD, PhD, received a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MD from Duke University School of Medicine, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where he trained with Nobel Prize winner Sir Macfarlane Burnet.

Dr. Norins directed a major laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before becoming a medical publisher. For three decades he created resources providing news and advice for health care professionals around the world. He was elected a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and has served on committees of the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization.

Dr. Norins lives with his wife in Naples, Florida.

Novelist and book editor Thomas Hauck has published numerous works of fiction, including Pistonhead, the story of a rock musician; The Body on the Rocks, a collection of crime stories set in his hometown of Gloucester, Massachusetts; and the Kevin Lone international thriller series.