When an important British businessman and his family are killed in Tokyo by a virulent form of West Nile disease, James Bond suspects a mass assassination. His mission to Japan reunites him with his old friend Tiger Tanaka. It's been years since they worked together, but the dangers they faced then are nothing compared with what awaits them today. Teamed with beautiful Japanese agent Reiko Tamura, Agent 007 searches for the killers and the one surviving daughter, Mayumi. With an emergency G-8 summit meeting just days away, Bond has his work cut out for him to discover when and how the next attack will occur. It's a race against time as Bond confronts both man and nature in a desperate bid to stop the release of a deadly virus that could destroy the Western world. Raymond Benson is the author of numerous books, including High Time to Kill and Doubleshot . His first book, The James Bond Bedside Companion , was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work. He lives and works in the Chicago area. Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist 's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London.