An EPA Scientist, Jon Kepler, discovers an unknown compound in a fish tissue sample from Lake Michigan. The compound seems to be related to the pollutant, PCBs. As Jon sleuths the source of the unknown chemical, he enters a race to convince both the EPA and the City of Chicago that some recent deaths might be related to the consumption of fish from the Lake. That deaths are recorded by the County Coroner, noting that the patients spent the last 30 hours of their lives in screaming agony as the Calcium was dissolved from their bones, making them "slug-like" in death. Jon teams with a biologist from an EPA contractor, a police captain and an Army Corps of Engineers buddy to try to stop the disease-carrying fish from reaching the St. Lawrence Seaway and from their into the worlds oceans. A combination Clive Cussler-Stephen King novel, BIOTOXIN is a fast, energetic read and is a fascinating mix of mystery, terror, sex, and two people's dedication to an ideal and the fate of the world population.