or die trying. This is known from a diary he kept, discovered in the woods many years later. This was his last entry."

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In one week, Manhattan will be gone.In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world.

At New York's JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane . . . and what he finds makes his blood run cold.

A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire—lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric.

And inthis year in an attempt to improve national security.

Thousands of those troops will be sent to the south, Afghanistan's most violent region.

Karzai was chosen to head up the Afghan transitional government and won 55 per cent of the vote in the country's first presidential elections back in 2004.

But his rule has been weakened by a failure to tackle corruption and violence, such as the resurgence of Taliban fighters who clash daily with Afghan government and international Nato troops.

While an election delay had been expected, opposition groups may raise objections.