Virion

From the opening pages, Virion will grab you by the collar and thrust you in front of the microscope, where it will beguile you into thinking it's a marvelous creation of nature, and then plunge you headlong into the annihilation of its victims, plucked randomly from the steamy deltas and the choked cities of Southeast Asia. Pandemic is born through the lens of the virus itself as Lou Symington chases down each outbreak for the World Health Organization, and Ken Culp tries to pry the secrets of destruction from a virus he's pampered in the lab his entire career. Experts clash on how to prepare humanity for the disease as fear of the unpredictable microbe escalates: but the real threat may be the unpredictability of man.