FIRST HORSEMAN

In the "Book of Revelations", the Four Horsemen herald the arrival of theApocalypse. When the First Horseman thunders forth, pestilence will spreadthroughout the land. For the First Horseman is Plague...The Spanish Flukilled thirty million people worldwide in 1918. Now, with historythreatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds toward aremote island on the Arctic Sea to recover strains of the lethal viruspreserved under layers of ice. For "Washington Post" reporter Frank Daly,it is the story of a lifetime. But, his plan to join the expedition isruined by a ferocious storm that delays him. And, when he meets up withthe ship upon its return to port in Norway, it is clear that something hasgone terribly wrong. Fear haunts the faces of the crew. No one will talk.And someone wants Daly to stop asking questions. But if there's a wallaround the facts, Daly will batter it down. Persistent and resourceful, heknows how to get answers when none are given. Yet, the more he uncovers,the more dangerous the stakes become. Until at last, he comes face-to-facewith a shocking secret, pitching him into a harrowing race to preventnothing less than...apocalypse.