Used book – Vector, Robin Cook

A vector is the vehicle for transmitting an infectious agent from one human to another. Controlling the one that could lead to massive and rapid spread: such is the objective of a few ultra-secret military laboratories around the world... and also of terrorist networks. A taxi driver in New York, Yuri, an exiled Russian, is a prime recruit for white supremacist fanatics, who believe that American democracy has betrayed its ideals and its people. In Sverdlovsk, he worked on the terrible bacillus anthracis: the agent of anthrax. During a health catastrophe never admitted by Moscow, he witnessed its terrifying effects.

This is how two New York medical examiners, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, well-known to readers of Chromosome 6, are put on the trail of a formidable conspiracy.

Two years before the events of autumn 2001, and the panic caused by the infectious powder mailings, Robin Cook published this prophetic thriller. And all the more unsettling because today, experts are not asking if a biological attack will ever be perpetrated, but when...