TY - BOOK AU - Laurence, Michael, TI - The extinction agenda SN - 9781250158482 (hardback) U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2019///. CY - New York : PB - St. Martin's Press, KW - Virus diseases KW - Fiction KW - Secret societies KW - Spy fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N2 - While searching for the man who killed his partner and his wife, FBI Special Agent James Mason uncovers a shadow organisation on the brink of enacting its genocidal agenda and a sinister mass murderer who's been photographed at the epicenter of every historical pandemic since the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918 - without appearing to age. Mason's quest for answers takes him from the criminal underbelly of America to its untouchable elite, from a dark union at the turn of the last century to a network of Nazi collaborators and a plot for global financial domination. Aided by his longtime friends Gunnar Backstrom - a corporate espionage gun-for-hire - and Ramses Donovan - a sin merchant of questionable morality - Mason uncovers a conspiracy against mankind more than a century in the making. A conspiracy to unleash a deadly virus and make a killing in the process. Can Mason's small team bring down a seemingly unbeatable shadow empire that's rooted in every facet of our society, or does its influence run too deep? ER -