The Cassandra Compact, Robert Ludlum and Philip Shelby

Condition:  WELL USED 

Publisher:  Orion 

Publication date: 2005

First published in 2001

Format: Paperback 

Pages:  396

Covert-One #2

From the Cover:  

Call for Covert-One, the US government's secret intelligence agency.

'What they're going to do, I would never have believed it.  It's insanity . . .'  These are the last words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the Russian security service, before his body is ripped apart by a spray of bullets.

Covert-One's Jon Smith has access to Danko's classified papers.  And he's unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy.  A terrorist on his way to deliver vials of a deadly bacteria to a US government agent.  But then both men are murdered, and the vials are stolen.  Smith must find the madman who now has the power to render the human race extinct.