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Whiteout

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 converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company’s director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus – but he isn’t the only one: His grown children, who have come to spend Christmas, have their eyes on the money it will bring.

Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; a local television reporter, determined to move up, has sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs is on its way to steal it for a client already waiting – though what the client really has in mind is something that will shock them all.

As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks – jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries – crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge ..

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German flag A Spiegel and Stern bestseller
Eisfieber was #1 on the Spiegel and Stern bestseller list in April 2008.

US flag  A New York Times bestseller
Whiteout was on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list for six weeks, and entered the list at #9.

  • "Everyone likes a page-turner, and Follett is the best." – Philadelphia Inquirer
  • "This is gasp-a-minute stuff by a vintage practioner of terror".
    – Carla McKay, Daily Mail
  • "Follett’s nail-biter ending drags readers to the very edge of their seats and holds them captive until the last villain is satisfactorily dispatched."
    – Publishers Weekly
  • "This exciting book is the best to come from Follett in a long while."
    – Leslie McGill, Kansas City Star
  • "On a par with the best of James Patterson and Nelson De Mille, Ken Follett injects the thrill and chill in his latest thriller." – Harriet Klausner, www.amazon.com

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Published as ...

Whiteout by Ken Follett, Macmillan, London, 15 October 2004

Sneet Inde in Denmark by J.W. Cappelens Forlag in February 2005

Peur Blanche in France by Robert Laffont in January 2005

Eisfieber in Germany by Lübbe in September 2005

Nel bianco in Italy by Mondadori in September 2004

Hvitt på Hvitt in Norway by Cappelen in November 2004

En el blanco in Spain by Grijalbo in February 2005