I too am a Follet fan, so I bought this book without hesitation. The description in the back of the book is promising although all too common in many of the books today. A deadly virus gone amuck. Who has not written about that? I figured Follet can make it interesting.And then, the story got boring. It lost its edge half way in the middle of the book only to get worse at the end. It is as if Follet gave up on the book end decided to wrap it up with a few easy pages.