The Odessa Virion

     Did the Soviet Union use a biologic agent in the Cold War to degrade the West’s economies? Is it still affecting Americans today as a prominent Russian scientist claims? Dr. John Mason, an infectious disease specialist at the CIA, doesn’t believe it exists. However, powerful political factions in the US stand to benefit from this alleged invisible epidemic. Dr. Mason is tasked with finding the truth. What he finds is that there are those who want to prevent the truth from being known.


William Bramwell

     William Bramwell is a physician and former intelligence analyst both in the military and at the CIA. Operationally  he served as a medical officer with the Marine Corps. His intelligence work centered on Soviet military operations, biowarfare, and bioterrorism. A graduate of the Defense Intelligence School and CIA’s Information Science Center, he specialized in applying quantitative techniques to intelligence analysis.