Silent Night by Tom Barber

Sam Archer Book 4

 This is the second Sam Archer book, i have read, a very good story and well written.

A man is found dead in Central Park on a cold December morning. There are no knife or gunshot wounds. No signs of violence. But beside the body is a box containing a cracked vial. Suspecting he died from some sort of biological attack, a lab team screen the body.

What they find is deeply unsettling.

Seven months after he left the ARU, Sam Archer is now a 3rd Grade Detective in the NYPD's Counter Terrorism Bureau. However, things haven't gone as expected. Most of his new squad have welcomed him. Others haven't. But when he and the rest of his five man team are called in urgently and told of the situation, all personal differences need to be put aside.

It's been confirmed the man in Central Park was killed by an unknown strain of a toxic pneumonic virus. Once inhaled, there is no chance of survival. The victim dies quickly, violently and in agonising pain. There is no antidote. No one knows where it has come from, who planted it in the Central Park and why. No ransom demands or threats have been received.

'This is our responsibility', the squad is told.

'We need to find out where the hell this came from and take it back.'

As Archer and the other detectives scour the city for answers, they soon discover that they are not alone in wanting to get their hands on the virus. There are others, people with far more sinister motives who will kill anyone who gets in their way. Piece by piece, Archer and his new team learn just what this virus is and where it came from.

They also discover that someone intends to release it in the city.

As people around him start going down, Archer must battle to stay one step ahead of his enemy in the race to find this toxic weapon. As anonymous strangers start to target him and his team, Archer must desperately do everything he can to both stay alive and take this virus back before more people die.

However, he is already too late.