A First Nations warrior group in Canada hacks into Native funds around the world. They use the stolen money to buy from Russian mafia a stock of highly refined inhalational anthrax, a WMD transferred from Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein. But things go catastrophically awry. The lethal endospores are sucked into the jet stream and sprinkled across the world. Three billion die in the pandemic's first months. The only hope for humanity is to find an immune person from whose blood a vaccine can be formulated. A drop of blood from such a person would be worth more than all the oil wells of the world.