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Humphrey James Barclay is onboard a flight from Ndanga to London when he starts bleeding uncontrollably, passing out almost immediately. Among the passengers is Dr Palmer who diagnoses haemorrhagic fever, one of its from being known as Ebola, an extremely contagious disease. Although every precaution is taken after the plane has landed in Heathrow, several passengers, Dr Palmer and a stewardess die a few days later of the same symptoms as Barclay because they had come close to the sick man without any protection. Dr Steven Dunbar, a Sci-Med investigator, is commissioned to investigate the case and when a post-mortem is performed on Barclay's body, a filovirus is discovered as being the cause for his haemorrhagic fever. However, this is surprising because scientists agree on the fact that there is no haemorrhagic fever in Ndanga. Even more surprising is the fact that a young woman, Ann Danby, is found dead in her flat in Manchester, also having succumbed to haemorrhagic fever. As more and more cases are reported with completely unrelated patients throughout the British Isles, a race against time starts for Dr Dunbar and his colleagues to find and eradicate the mysterious disease.
An entertaining medical thriller in the same vein as Michael Palmer or Robin Cook.

I was liking this book just fine until the part came that I always hate - the bad ending. The question of what caused this hemorrhagic ailment is interesting; Dunbar's detective work was meticulous and painstaking as he tries to piece together the mystery of how all these seemingly unrelated cases of filovirus are connected. Some of the events that happen and don't happen in the book are a bit unbelievable -- for sure how Dunbar doesn't end up with the virus himself the biggest stretch considering all that happens and some of the things he does. All in all, a nice effort but I feel that authors really need to consider the impact of how they end a book. I would be more specific but that would be spoilers.