In 1918 the Spanish flu spread around the world and killed more people than World War I. In a laboratory in Uppsala, Sweden, a group of scientists has recreated the virus from bodies that have been deep frozen in Alaska for over 90 years. They manage to create a form of the virus that is even more aggressive and more deadly than the original one. One night there is an animal activist attack on the laboratory. At first it seems harmless; the only thing missing is a dozen kittens used in medical experiments not connected to the virus. But microbiologist Lotta Nordenflycht gets suspicious, and soon realizes that two tubes of the virus have been replaced, in what looks like an inside job. In the wrong hands they can literally wipe out the entire population of the planet.
Police Inspector Ulf Beow is in the middle of investigating the racist murder of his best friend and colleague. He is also in the middle of separating with his wife, struggling to keep custody of their son and at the same time trying to help his mentally unstable mother. As if that was not enough, the case of the stolen virus falls into his lap, a group of young animal rights activists are found murdered and just a few miles away, a notorious neo Nazi leader is about to establish a new world order. Soon Beow realizes that the neo-Nazis, the bio weapon and the murdered kids are somehow connected. Lotta Nordenflycht is assigned to help him in the investigations, and it soon becomes obvious to Ulf that she is not only one of the top scientists in her field; she is a woman of unexpected resources, with an agenda of her own.
RED SNOW is a modern, high paced thriller of ideologies run amock, biological weapons of mass destruction and a heroine truly capable of handling the situation.