<p> At New York?s JFK Airport, an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane??and what he finds makes his blood run cold. </p> <p> A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like all-consuming wildfire??lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here. </p> <p> In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world. </p>