THE TRUDEAU VECTOR As the international team of scientists at the spectacular Trudeau Research  Center  prepares for six months of unrelenting Arctic winter, three of their colleagues  are found  dead, their pupils missing and their bodies contorted in ghastly, unnatural  positions. An  American epidemiologist, the talented and unconventional Dr. Jessica Hanley, is  summoned to investigate the medical riddle posed by these grisly deaths. At the  same  time, a decorated Russian admiral in Moscow is assigned a top-secret mission to  locate  and retrieve a Russian submarine that has suddenly and inexplicably vanished  from  central command™s radar.  The die is cast. Their lives will cross in Jurjevics™s engrossing debut  thriller, brilliant and  terrifying in its medical and historical accuracy. Hanley™s inquiry and Admiral  Rudenko™s  quest bring them up against hazards much bigger than microbes”scientific  megalomania, lingering cold war tensions, world-threatening environmental  toxins, all  unfolding in the unforgiving extremes of the Arctic.  A thriller that superbly depicts the precarious, volatile area where science and  global  politics can clash with disastrous results, The Trudeau Vector is  reminiscent of  the classic suspense of Frederick Forsyth™s The Day of the Jackal and the  terrifying realism of Michael Crichton™s The Andromeda Strain. With its  disquieting and revelatory authenticity, readers cannot help but fall under its  spell and ask  themselves, "Could this really happen?"