Robert Ludlum's the Hades Factor

One of the leading suspense novelists of our day, Robert Ludlum has over 200 million copies of his bestselling books in print.Now Ludlum unleashes Covert-One, a bold new series of intrigue, espionage, and modern warfare, featuring three brave men who risk their lives to uncover the truth behind the today's most deadly power plays: bright, driven U.S. Army doctor Jon Smith; eccentric electronic genius Marty Zellerback; and fearless foreign intelligence expert Peter Howell.A baffling virus has claimed the lives of four people across the country-including Dr. Sophia Russell, a research scientist working to understand the disease.Bitter and broken-hearted over the death of his beautiful fiance, Jon Smith is determined to uncover the cause of the virus that killed her-and prevent it from turning into a pandemic of epic proportions.There are two men who can help Smith-and with their brilliance and expertise, he'll travel across the globe and into the darkest corridors of murder and greed, to find a killer who would sacrifice millions of lives for his own success....and whose first target is Smith himself, the only man who can stop him.AUTHORBIO: ROBERT LUDLUM is the author of twenty-one novels, each one a national bestseller. There are over 210 million copies of his books in print, which have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript and the Jason Bourne series-The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum-among others.GAYLE LYNDS is the bestselling author of Masquerade and Mosaic, both highly praised novels of international suspense.A former newspaper reporter and magazine editor, Lynds also worked at a think tank where she had top-secret security clearance.Her third post-Cold War thriller, Mesmerized, will be published soon.