This is a good medical thriller. It involves a weird pox-like bug that keeps killing individuals. Scarpetta is forced to find out who unleashed this horrid plague in order to prevent further death and demise. I am not a doctor, well not a medical doctor, so that portion of the book sounded realistic to me. The suspense was set very nicely in a readable book that moves along very quickly and is never boring. The writing is very good and serves to set up a good summer read. Anyway, it is worth a read, so get it and enjoy.