In this gripping debut thriller from James M. Tabor, a brilliant and gorgeous scientist and a inexplicable special ops soldier must lead a team deep in to the Earth on the desperate search for the remedy to a lethal epidemic.

When she was unjustly fired from a clandestine government laboratory, microbiologist Hallie Leland swore she’d never look back. But she can’t disregard an urgent summons in the White House to reenter the world of cutting-edge technology and harmful secrets.

“ about The Deep Zone: A Novel Potentially the most severe danger since Pearl Harbor” can be how the chief executive describes a incomprehensible epidemic eliminating American troops in Afghanistan-and now poised for outbreak in the us and beyond. Large numbers will die unless Hallie and a hastily mobilized team can recover the ultrarare organism had a need to create a fresh antibiotic. The good news is that Hallie knows even more about the organism than other people on the planet. The bad information is that it can be discovered only in the bottom of Earth’s deepest cave.

Hallie’s team is capable-especially the incomprehensible Wil Bowman, who understands as very much about high-tech weaponry as he does about microbiology-but the challenge shows up insurmountable. Before also achieving the supercave, they need to traverse a forbidding Mexican jungle populated by warring cartels, Federales, and murderous locals. Only then can they confront the cave’s flooded tunnels, lakes of acid, bottomless chasms, and mind-warping blackness. However the deadliest foes are hiding in plain view: a powerful traitor saturated in the Washington ranks and a cunning assassin deep underground, driven to turn Hallie’s objective into a trip of no come back.

The award-winning and bestselling author of two nonfiction books about experience and exploration, Wayne M. Tabor right now plunges readers in to the harrowing subterranean globe of supercaves-and actually deeper, right into a race-with-the-devil thriller that pits one female against a lethal epidemic and a murderous conspiracy.