• Explores a threatening strain of influenza that may still be dormant.
• Molly Caldwell Crosby is the bestselling author of The American Plague (Berkley, 2007).
• Great cover quote from Oliver Sacks, bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador, 2009).
• Will appeal to readers of Sacks' Awakenings (Picador, 1991), the only other book to have tackled the subject.
• Recent global epidemics like bird and swine flu give this topic great potential for UK coverage.