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Congo Variant: Part One, Chapter one

Hurst Chronicles podcast

English - May 05, 2023 15:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB - ★★★★ - 1 rating
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A terrifying plot to plunge the Western World into chaos. A virus capable of changing the course of history. 

In the wrong hands, a bioweapon more powerful than anthrax. 

Rookie infectious diseases doctor Alice Bishop joins a scientific expedition operating deep within the Congo rainforest. She must locate the source of the outbreak before war engulfs central Africa.

British MI6 operative Blake Harris is searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction as part of a United Nations inspection team. Harris must find the truth about the Iraqi weapons programme before the Allies’ patience with Saddam Hussain runs out. 

Harris and Bishop uncover a terrifying plot that threatens to plunge the Western World into chaos.

Congo Variant is the first novel in an exciting new Variant series set in 1998 in the run-up to Operation Desert Fox and the bombing of Iraq.