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Whiteout

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: Sally Armstrong
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A family Christmas, a blizzard, and a deadly virus let loose. Filled with startling twists, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from bestselling author Ken Follett.

A Family Reunited

As a blizzard descends from the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family estate in Scotland. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus.

A Brewing Storm

Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; and a local television reporter, determined to move up, has sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it.

A House Under Siege

A sinister gang spots an opportunity to use one of Stanley’s children against him and steal the virus. As everyone takes shelter, it becomes apparent that being inside the house may be more dangerous than the storm outside, especially when a lethal virus might be on the loose...

©2004 Ken Follett (P)2015 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Genre Fiction Medical Suspense Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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"Human betrayal, medical terror and a race against time...this is gasp a minute stuff by a vintage practitioner." (Daily Mail)

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This is the first time Ken Follett hasn't lived up to expectations. amusing enough but no real excitement. just one incident after another.
Sally Armstrong read well enough but what was meant to be exciting sex at the end read like a text book.
definitely average.

comedy of errors

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Ken Follett is a great story teller and master of complex plots, suspense, tension and drama. I could barely put it down. I suspect the central idea came from a real-life incident which happened near me in Salisbury UK.
The narrator is excellent too. Full marks!

Terrific story

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Thoroughly enjoyed this story from start to finish. Ken is a terrific author. Well done.

Very well write and read

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This book is extremely well narrated by Sally Armstrong. She excelled in her portrayal of the various accents and different voices

Having read three other Ken Follett books (Fall of Giants, Edge of Eternity and Pillars of the Earth) which I rated all three as five star, this one did not hit the mark. It is still worth reading, but just fell a bit short of his usual high standard.

Great Narration

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Enjoyed the book a real page turner. My only criticism is that everything that could possibly go wrong did go wrong - nobody could be that unlucky!
Very well read by the narrator.

Worth Reading

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