Akron Public Library

In the spring of 1918, an army private reported to a hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, an illness that doctors knew little about. By the end of WWI, America was ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people.

Chaos and violence reign when a deadly strain of virus spreads throughout the urban population at an outbreak rate of 2,000 new cases each hour, and death occurring within 36 hours. As the virus spreads, those who are infected get quarantined in an abandoned city. As the people struggle to survive within those walls, some risk their lives to save those they love, while some risk others to save their own lives.

When a Los Angeles bound passenger airline reports an inexplicable death mid-flight, Dr. Kayla Martin of the Center for Disease Control is called in to evaluate the frightening possibilities. She must determine if it is the reality of the bird flu, the probability of a biological attack or worse, a new virus that can't be contained. With the clock ticking and a search for Patient Zero commencing around the globe, the virus begins to spread, the body...