Hallie Leland is finally reclaiming her feelings of self-worth, working in a Florida dive shop, after fleeing Washington, DC, in disgrace and embarrassment. Accused of selling security secrets the once celebrated microbiologist is now happily leading divers through Florida’s coral formations and caves. When a virulent drug-resistant strain of bacteria threatens to annihilate first the residents of military hospitals, and then the entire world population, Hallie is ordered back to Washington to continue work on the antidote she’d been researching before she was fired. The problem is that the necessary lab samples are no longer available and the only place that they can be found is in the subterranean interior of a remote cave deep in the jungles of Mexico. Known to live only in the adverse biological conditions found in the cave, the organisms, called extremophiles, provide the only hope of preventing a raging pandemic, and Hallie and her team must find them. What would be a difficult task under normal circumstances becomes gut-wrenchingly suspenseful when
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