Whiteout
- Authors: Ken Follett
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- Type: Novel
- Genres: Thriller
- Rank:Top 1000 in Best Medical Fiction Books on Amazon
- Rating: 4.2 based on 15,125 reviews
- Release Date: November 23, 2004
- Print length: 384 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
Human betrayal, medical terror and a race against time...
Jealousies, distrust, and hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing.
As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs is on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting.
As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets are uncovered threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever.
Filled with startling twists, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from an international bestselling author who is in a class by himself.
Praise for Whiteout
Follett's sure hand at the controls of a high-octane plot delivers the expected thrills.
Undeniably suspenseful.
Follett's trademark tension and breakneck pacing.
Exciting? Absolutely... . Follett makes the formula work with his trademark strong females, large cast of characters, and race-against-the-clock pace... high-speed escapism.
Scary... provides a rush of fear.
A new breed of thriller... an agonizingly protracted, nail-biter ending drags readers to the very edge of their seats and holds them captive until the last villain is satisfactorily dispatched.
[A] feverish plot.
Follett goes down a high-concept road... . [He] handles the tension of the circumstances nicely.
A blizzard of treachery and violence... an adrenaline-pumping thriller.
Exciting.
A literate, plausible, suspenseful tale that keeps you turning pages well past bedtime.
Almost nonstop action with a plausible and sufficiently frightening plot... a page-turner, pure and simple.
Movie-style twists and hairbreadth escapes.
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