The Paradox Syndrome Author:Ken Hodgson Doctor Laura Masterson has long been fascinated by the Spanish Flu epidemic that peaked in 1918, killing over fifty million people. To Dr. Masterson, recovering a specimen of what had been a wildly mutating virus could lead to a vaccine that might cure or prevent all infections. Paradox, New Mexico was hardest hit by the flu, but the dry climat... more »e could have preserved specimens of the virus in some bodies buried in the nearby cemetery. With construction beginning on a new dam, the corpses must be moved, giving Laura an opportunity to study the remains. Before the exhumations begin, a cocky archeologist, Jack Stoner, who is in charge of moving the cemetery, arrives. Laura recovers a sample, but the mobile lab containing the virus is driven away by her "bodyguard." Jack and his team attempt to stop their escape while Jack explains to Laura that he's actually an undercover agent tracking a pharmaceutical company suspected of planning to resurrect the Spanish Flu, find a cure, patent it, then release the deadly disease and reap billions of dollars from a panicking world. Thus begins a deadly chase in the desert with the lives of millions of people hanging in the balance.« less