When two boys find a dead man, murdered gangland style, lying in weeds on their fathers farm, a chain of events take place that pulls small-town Deputy Sheriff Buster Thornton into an international conspiracy -- a conspiracy which thretens to drag the United States into another Mid-East confrontation. When thousands of cattle, being fattened for market in the huge feedlots in the Texas Panhandle, start to die from an unknown virus, Buster's murder investigation becomes intertwined with the FBI's investigation of a terrorism strike against the nation's food supply. Buster brings the tactics of the old-west lawman into play as he searches in Las Vegas and Chicago for clues, but he soon learns that his own life is placed in jeopardy when he gets too close to solving the murder and the mysterious cattle virus epidemic. Quarantine will keep you turning the pages to see how Buster gets out of scape after scrape with the perpetrators of both crimes! McCathern brings the modern day cowboy, murder mystery and international conspiracy together for a very exciting story which will thrill readers of all ages and sexes. As one high level government official commented concerning the plot, "It's not a question of IF if will happen -- the question is, WHEN will it happen?