Black TrumpWild Cards [15]George R. R. Martin

SUMMARY:

Finally flushed into the open by the heroism of a joker and an uninfected lady reporter, the Card Sharkconspiracy faces destruction. But a cornered animal is a dangerous animal, and the Sharks still haveone final card to play: the Black Trump. The ultimate biological weapon. The Black Trump simplykills all those with the wild card virus written into their genes, joker or ace -and its success rate isone hundred percent. In New York's teeming Jokertown, in the Joker's Quarter of old Jerusalem, inthe Free People's State of Vietnam where the ace Mark Meadows rules in a sixties vision of love andpeace, the bombs are ticking...and time is running out.