Earl W Emerson

When fire chief Jim Swopes traces the unknown disease that's wiped out half his department in less than a week to a truck crash on a western Washington highway, he knows his days are numbered--like the other victims, all of whom died, he has just seven days to live unless he can find an antidote to a chemical poison no one else believes exists. Helped by a beautiful doctor whose comatose sister drove one of the trucks in the crash, he traces the poison...

Five bicyclists climb into the foothills of the Cascades...but another group has entered the park too. They're in cars, for pleasure and for vengeance. A grudge turns an idyllic setting into a terrifying landscape of men and nature at their most dangerous.