No Immunity

MURDER IN THE BLOOD

Kiernan O'Shaughnessy's cook is an ex–football player--big, brawny, and deft with a glazed quail. But Tchernak has always longed to be a detective. So when Kiernan, a former medical examiner, is called to the Nevada desert to investigate a dead body, Tchernak makes his break. The result: While Kiernan is hunting a virus that could cause a horrific outbreak, the lumbering, ever self-confident Tchernak goes freelance on the some case--and is making a hash of everything he touches.

So far one person has died of the mysterious disease. A geolo-' gist is missing. So are a pair of innocent boys plucked from a Panamanian rain forest. Unraveling the secrets of big oil and big government, Kiernan needs to stay one step ahead of her out-ofcontrol assistant in a long, dark Nevada night. But what surrounds them both is a bloody plague: the kind of greed, foolishness, and violence from which no one is immune... .