Red Storm Horizon

Dan Coltrane has been assigned to find out how scammers are taking so much money off Australian business investors and uncovers a vast empire of illicit business dealings primarily involved with the world wide supply of vaccines. His chase leads him to Egypt where some of the most effective vaccine ingredients come from the feared and deadly King Cobra's found around the nile pyramids. Coltrane is lured in to the citadel of Cheops in the great pyramid of the same name and while searching for the vials that contain the valuable antigents he is confronted by Chinese agents looking for the same thing.
Doctor Jason Winslow from the Melbourne University of Medicine has been succonded by the Chinese to develop an effective vaccine against the Covid outbreak now sweeping the world. They need it immediately to stem the contraction rate in China which is spreading with devastating effect. Coltrane meets up with fellow agent Lin Leong and they travel to China to make a deal with the Communist government regarding the vaccine production.
Coltrane meets with Elang Huan a Chinese national who assists him in negotiating a deal with the Chinese Communist government and they fall in love with each other enroute. While escaping the Communist Security police Elang Huan and Coltrane travel back to her home in the mountains amid the threat of nuclear war with America but it is too late because she has contracted the Covid virus. While they attempt to cross the mountains into safe territory Elang succumbs to the illness and Coltrane has to face the future without her.