A routine missing persons case for Private Investigator Rory Mack Steele turns into terror for America. The deadliest disease mankind has ever known is resurrected and unleashed as a biological weapon of mass destruction. The purpose? A mad, twisted lust to reshape the future of the world. Innocent, men, women and children in America begin to die in agony. Framed for the deaths and pursued relentlessly by the police, Rory must find some way to fight back against a formidable foe and save billions around theglobe from dying a painful, agonizing death in the Fire Plague.