Batman: Contagion

A chilling story that unites all the Batman heroes for a crisis of epidemic proportions - prepare for an edge-of- your-seat, white-knuckle storyline with more than a few shocks to send readers reeling. Rogue members of the Order of St Dumas - the centuries-old secret society that created Azrael - have stolen a horrifying biological weapon. Using a village in Greenland as ground zero for a test-to-destruction, the Order secretly releases a lethal virus upn the unknowing inhabitabnts. Upon contact with human tissue, the virus begins a relentless dehydration of the host, causing an agonising constriction of muscle tissue over brittle, breaking bones, forcoing the infected body to "clench up" in excrucuating pain. Within 48 hours, the entire village is dead...save three...