In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds...
When a young homeless girl dies in the latest of a string of arson attacks, Dr. Rhona Macleod is called in. But the chief fire investigator is the hot-tempered misogynist Severino Macrae, and he doesn't like to lose face. As the attacks escalate,...