Robert Ludlum's The Cassandra Compact -- Robert Ludlum

<p><i>What they're going to do, I never would have believed it...</i>These were among the final words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia's security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassins' bullets. Danko's confidential appointment in Venice with Covert-One operative Jon Smith might have ended in death--but his secret didn't die with him...</p><p> Now, in possession of Danko's classified papers, Smith and CIA undercover agent Randi Russell have unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy. A Serb terrorist, backed by Russians, is on a mission to spirit hazardous vials of deadly bacteria to a U.S. government agent--a shadowy figure whose motives for acquiring the bioweapon are made all the more unfathomable when both men are found murdered--and the strain is stolen. Time is running out for Smith and Russell to track it down, find the madman who possesses it, and stop him before he holds a defenseless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Robert Ludlum, Philip Shelby<br><b>Publisher:</b> St. Martin's Griffin<br><b>Published:</b> 03/15/2002<br><b>Pages:</b> 304<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.97lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.48h x 4.72w x 1.03d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781250770523<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p><b>Robert Ludlum</b> was the author of 25 thriller novels, including <i>The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy</i> and <i>The Bourne Ultimatum</i>--the b