Vector

Paul Donovan was out in the desert. He didn't see the tiny plane buffeted by the sudden freak storm. He couldn't have seen the deadly cloud that drifted down, invisible, toward the little town of Tarsus.

And yet, within hours, the entire town was swept with a strange epidemic that left a wake of fever, madness and death. Only Paul and five others were spared the full brunt of the raging infection.

Then, as if from heave, the Army field hospital arrived. But the angels of mercy had hellish plans. They immediately cut off all lines of communication and all avenues of escape fro the survivors.

And as the terrible truth at last became clear, as Donovan faced the unbelievable evidence that the Army meant to conceal the horror of Tarsus from the American public, he knew the only hope was to escape and take his incredible story to the outside world.

Wracked with pain and reeling from fever, Donovan began his flight through the desert, unaware that he was to be the object of a massive manhunt---with orders to shoot to kill!

Switching in rapid-fire scenes---from the Pentagon councils to the hush-hush labs at Dugway to the stricken town to the lonely fugitive---this chilling novel explores, to its explosive end, and what may happen, today or tomorrow, to a real American town. It can happen---may happen, so long as the deadly chemical-biological experiments continue, despite the so-called ban, in the name of defensive research measures.

VECTOR will scare the hell out of you. Only the truth could be worse.