Book summary

The first installment in a series created by bestselling author Robert Ludlum, this military/medical thriller involves a love-struck Army doctor, his molecular biologist fiancee, and a horrific new virus that kills its victims by causing their lungs to fill up with blood. Just when the fiancee discovers a cure for the disease, crooks ransack her lab and viciously inject a dose of the virus into her system, causing her to die almost instantaneously. Now it's up to the grieving Colonel Jon Smith to find his beloved's killers and the serum that will cure the deadly disease. A two-part TV miniseries of THE HADES FACTOR, starring Stephen Dorff, Anjelica Huston, and Mira Sorvino, aired in 2006.

Media reviews

"Even with Ludlum's urge to italicize and slam down exclams kept under iron control, the new team still has a pop hit on their hands that should bounce right up the bestseller lists."