THE DEATH STRAIN... is a lethal virus for which there is no antidote and which kills in a hideous, painful way. THE DEATH STRAIN... becomes a paralyzing threat to the world in the hands of the maddened genius who had developed it for America’s use in germ warfare. THE DEATH STRAIN... leads Nick Carter to an elite legion of the damned, a group whose motto is “Kill for Peace,” a group he must destroy before it is too late!