Viral (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | James Lilliefors | knygos.lt

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In remote pockets of the Third World, a deadly virus is quietly sweeping through impoverished farming villages and shanty towns with frightening speed and potency. In the South of France, a high-level terrorist is found slain in an alleyway and a former American intelligence agent is suspected. In West Africa, an undercover dissident journalist learns of an investment consortium planning to funnel billions of dollars into the continent. Before he can publicize details, he is savagely murdered.
 
And in Washington, a three-word message left in a safe-deposit box may be the thread that connects these seemingly unrelated incidents – if, that is, Charles Mallory, a private intelligence contractor and former CIA operative, can decipher it before time runs out.
 
What Mallory begins to discover are the traces of a secret war, with a bold objective – to create a new, technologically advanced, and lucrative, society in an unlikely region of Africa; a model civilization able to solve the ages-old, seemingly insoluble problems that plague many Third World nations. With the help of his brother Jon, an investigative reporter, can he break the story to the world before it is too late – before a planned “humane depopulation” takes place?
 
As the stakes and strategies of this secret war become more evident, the Mallory brothers find themselves in a complex game of wits with an enemy they can’t see: a new sort of superpower led by a brilliant, elusive tactician who believes that ends justify means.