Second-hand smoke gave Martin Muntor lung cancer…and he’s mad. Very mad.
And he’s going to do something about it.
Muntor devises an ingenious strategy to cripple the cigarette industry and put it out of business. He doesn’t care how many people he has to take with him in order to succeed.
The year is 1995, and the tobacco industry thinks it’s invincible. Powerful lobbyists pressure lawmakers to enact favorable regulations. Addicted consumers buy cigarettes despite soaring costs and proven health risks. Industry revenues reach record highs. Things are looking good for the billion-dollar corporations and their millionaire executives.
Then something happens they never see coming: Muntor, a Philadelphia-based journalist, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he swears he won’t go quietly. Muntor – who wants to be known as “Virgil” – is dangerous, motivated, and nothing can stop him.
He implements his scheme by spiking cigarettes with sodium cyanide and slipping them back into the retail distribution chain. Hundreds die. He manipulates the media, toys with the FBI, and promises a “grand finale” the world will never forget.
Muntor taunts tobacco company investigator Tommy Rhoads, and Rhoads takes it personally. As Rhoads closes in, Muntor puts his plot into overdrive. More people die. Helpless tobacco companies are desperate and authorities panic. Finally, Rhoads corners Muntor – but is he in time to prevent the lethal catastrophe Muntor engineered?
Read Find Virgil now, and go along for the wild ride. You’ll never forget it.
