Winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award in the Medical Thriller genre. This techno thriller, hard scifi novel, begins in the Arctic where an oil company is drilling and unwittingly discovers a megavirus which had been frozen in the permafrost for 30,000 years. It is a thousand times larger than any viruses known before and is a human pathogen. Now investigators in Houston must race against the ticking clock of the short Arctic summer to discover a way to protect workers from the virus before competitors drain the basin of its rich resources… and before anyone else dies from the hemorrhagic fever that the Laptev virus causes.

WINNER OF THE 2015 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR MEDICAL THRILLERSLA screen writer Steven Ramirez called The Laptev Virus “A worthy successor to the Andromeda Strain.” If you like Michael Crichton books, this award-winning hard sci-fi medical thriller is for you.The Laptev Virus begins as an oil company, drilling in the Arctic, accidentally discovers a megavirus, frozen in the permafrost. It is 30,000 years old. And it is a human pathogen. Just how would a team of scientists go about studying it? And what if the mice models they were using inadvertently became contaminated, leading the researchers to dubious conclusions? Now, imagine if the CEO of the oil company sponsoring the research put pressure on the lab to issue a certification that the coast was clear and they could return to drilling—but it turns out that he is dead wrong?More than 5,300 copies of The Laptev Virus have sold in the first year since its release. Here’s your chance to see why readers just can’t put it down!Attention book clubs—I am available to “attend” your discussion of The Laptev Virus to answer questions via Skype or phone!