Whiteout[冰天雪地]
Bestseller Follett sets his sights on biological terrorism, pumping old-school adrenaline into this new breed of thriller. Ex-policewoman Antonia "Toni" Gallo, head of security at a boutique pharmaceuticals company, has discovered that two doses of an experimental drug—developed as a potential cure for the deadly Madoba-2 virus—have vanished from her top-secret laboratory. This mystery is a precursor to a more serious crime being planned by Kit Oxenford, the gambling-addicted son of the company's founder, Stanley Oxenford. Kit, deeply in debt to mobster Harry Mac, sees a raid on his father's lab as a chance to score enough money to disappear and start anew in another country. Some characters are a bit familiar—the pesky, unprincipled journalist; the imbecilic police detective—but others, the mobster's psychopathic daughter in particular, show idiosyncratic originality. After a long buildup, the burglary is set in motion, and Kit's best-laid plans begin to fall apart. Eventually, good guys and bad guys end up at the Oxenford family estate, trapped in the house by a fierce snowstorm as they battle one another over the material stolen from the laboratory. A romance between the recently widowed Stanley and Toni and the unexpected addition of Toni's comically addled mother thicken the plot as Follett's 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. 1 AM 3 AM 7 AM 7:30 AM 8 AM 8:30 AM 9 AM 9:30 AM 10 AM 11 AM 12 NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8:30 PM 9:30 PM 10:30 PM 11:30 PM MIDNIGHT 12:30 AM 12:35 AM 12:45 AM 12:55 AM 1:15 AM 1:30 PM 1:45 AM 2 AM 2:30 AM 3:30 AM 3:45 AM 4:15 AM 4:30 AM 5 AM 5:30 AM 5:45 AM 6 AM 6:15 AM 6:30 AM 6:45 AM 7 AM 7:15 AM 7:30 AM 7:45 AM 8 AM 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 8:45 AM 9 AM 10 AM
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