A MAN-MADE PLAGUE: No disease is more deadly or more enigmatic than the genetically engineered virus known as "Saint Vitus." Seconds after infecting its victim, the neurotoxin causes massive hemorrhaging, madness, convulsions and inevitably ... death. Experiments show the airborne virus is four hundred times more lethal as conventional neurotoxins - with characteristics that make it ideal for covert biological warfare.

A MADMAN'S PLOT: Since its unauthorized "birth," the abomination has been the U.S. Army's best-kept secret - until its theft. Now in the hands of al-Qaeda's most...

SOMETHING UNIMAGINABLE: A very old man with no past who calls himself "Aman" divulges to a few that the end of the world as we know it is suddenly at hand. Something unimaginable has happened that will change everything in a matter of days. It will begin, he says, when all those whose nature promotes violence and killing are purged.

At dawn Aman's prophetic warning proves true. People throughout the world who have ever taken a life, or who have advocated violence against another, are now dead with no apparent cause. World leaders who instigated deadly hostilities succumb, including the...

A DARK AND DEADLY WORLD: The year is 1894 - the end of the great age of sailing. When shipbuilder Andrew Finsbury learns that his fiancee Vanessa has vanished at sea and is presumed dead, he resolves to find who or what is responsible. Assembling a small but seasoned crew, Andrew follows a deadly trail of deceit to Africa where he fends off ghastly specters of a dark and deadly world determined to claim his soul.

THE FATE OF HIS SOUL: Fallen crewmates reveal to Andrew that he is already dead, an event that will take place for him in a fortnight. Caught between the world of the living...