Filled with startling twist, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from Ken Follett-an international Bestselling Author who is in a class of his own .As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Among them is Stanley Oxenford , director of a pharmaceutical research company,who has everything riding on druge he is developing to fight a lethal virus.
But other are interested in his success too: his grown -up children,at home for Christmas,have their eyes on the fortune he will make ; Toni Gallo , forced to resign from the police and now head of Stanley's security team ,is betting her career in keeping the drug safe ; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story even if he to bend the fact to tell it and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to steal the antidote for a client already waiting through what the client really has in mind in something that will shock them.