This techno thriller concerns Lars Brent. He's a frail-looking Canadian scientist who has invented a wonder drug. It's easily worth half a trillion dollars, but he has no hopes of cashing in. Why? Five years ago, he used his invention to kill assassins. Lars Brent, code named Needles, is a thin Canadian scientist who looks barely able to withstand winter winds. Yet he's a counter-assassin, who kills with a revolutionary poison and with...