An easy and quick read. Not as good as Gerritsen's later work. Quick summary: Whistleblower on the run from FBI rouge hunter, baddies are developing smallpox virus as WMD, whistleblower shot and knocked down by random woman in car, random woman wronged by men in the past, they go to hospital, people die, on the run again, take risks, get evidence to bring down baddies in FBI and DC, all ends well, random woman and whistleblower fall in love and escape in a taxi...