Whiteout [Paperback]

Everyone likes a page-turner, and Follett is the best. —The Philadelphia Inquirer

A hell of a storyteller (Entertainment Weekly), #1New York Timesbestselling author Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new novel. But nothing matches the intricate knife-edge drama ofWhiteout. . . . 

A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.
 
As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks—jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries—crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn,Whiteoutrockets Follett into a class by himself.

Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.Praise forWhiteout

A blizzard of treachery and violence . . . an adrenaline-pumping thriller. —The Associated Press

[A] feverish plot. —Rocky Mountain News

Movie-style twists and hairbreadth escapes. —The Wall Street Journal

Undeniably suspenseful. —Entertainment Weekly

Scary . . . provides a rush of fear. —New York Post

Almost nonstop action with a plausible and sufficiently frightening plot . . . a page-turner, pure and simple. —The Tennessean

Follett goes down a high-concept road. . . . [He] handles the tension of the circumstances nicely. —San Francisco Chronicle

A literate, plausible, suspenseful tale that keeps you turning pages well past bel%