Book review: A HEARTBEAT AWAY by Michael Palmer

Summary:

A domestic terrorist organization has released a deadly, highly contagious virus into the Capitol during the President’s State of the Union address. The president, Dr. Jim Allaire, knows the virus well-–his administration was developing it before he abandoned the project. Allaire is forced to quarantine the Capitol and all 700 VIPs in it. Our government’s only hope is Griffin Rhodes, a virologist whom Allaire has been holding in solitary confinement in a federal prison for sus...