Neither man nor medicine has successfully halted the spread of the Carrion Virus, and with a cure seeming closer to impossible than probable, an oppressing feeling of despair has settled over Aberdeen. As a determined Doctor Holden leads a team of researchers in an effort to develop an antidote, Eric Mann continues in his near-futile attempt to rescue those not yet infected. But when the sickening truth is slowly revealed, and the Owls of Athena gleefully watching from afar, the city finds itself teetering toward a complete collapse with the rest of the world not far behind. The Athena Protocol is book 2 of the Carrion Virus series.