Just a Little Evil

A genetically engineered bio-weapon is burning across the world, on the edge of wiping out the entire human race. The world's governments think scientist Marie Chantelain created it. Marie knows another killer bio-weapon is about to be unleashed. Can she find and destroy the second bio-weapon before they find and kill her?The human race is finally about to wipe itself out. Everybody knows it's coming. Nobody knows how to stop it.It's the day after tomorrow. Mass murder is easy, and everybody is doing it . . .Doctor Marie Chantelain is trying make a virus that will cure her sister Anne of sickle-cell anemia. Her boss Doctor Simon Marix has created the world's first horrorweapon and is selling it to terrorists, genetically targeted and biochemically loaded with snake poison genes, designed to zero in and kill only the victim or victims of your choice, the most lethal killing machines ever seen on planet Earth, silent, certain, savage.Marie catches Simon and is framed by him as a mass murderer. She escapes with help from her cop boyfriend Patrick and goes on the run from the FBI and the CIA. Together, Marie and Patrick desperately try to stop Simon before he sells yet another horrorweapon, a weapon Marie knows could wipe out the entire human race with the slightest slip.The slip happens.A horrorweapon is free. The entire world goes to Hell in a heartbeat. The Suicide of Man begins.Marie fights to save a world she knows is about to utterly destroy itself anyway, despite all she or anyone else can do. Simon Marix is only the latest manifestation of a fundamental instability in civilization.Mankind is acquiring absolute power---without absolute law.Marie fights knowing the fundamental problem is not Simon, not horrorweapons. As a Catholic, Marie knows the fundamental problem, what is on the edge of wiping humanity out, is evil itself, its presence in the world, and the only thing that can save the human race from imminent extinction is the apparently supremely impossible goal of destroying all the evil in the world, banishing evil from the Earth forever.To establish absolute law, to banish evil from the Earth forever, to save her world and stop the Suicide of Man, Marie will be forced to face---and solve---a crisis that has been coming for humanity since its very beginning.