Another plague book… I might be in a slump

This is my half Cannonball book! I just realized that ?. Twenty-six is as far as I got last year, so hurray for me!
Anyway, onward to the book. So i guess my title is a bit misleading. It’s not really a plague book, so much as a bio-terrorism story. It starts out with some scary Spanish flu stuff. They call it the Spanish lady. A Korean village is struck with the Spanish flu somehow, and in the middle of the night, the government decimates the whole town.
I can’t remember why Frank, the reporter finds out about the Korean story, but he tries to figure it all out from there.
There’s a CDC virologist, a charismatic eco obsessed cult leader, some murders, kidnappings, and general mayhem. Oh also, the FBI and CIA are both involved.
Annie, the virologist is quite smart and good at her job. There’s a big trek up to Norway to uncover some frozen miners because she believes that they died of the Spanish flu and that samples of the virus are frozen in their tissues. Of course the cult got there first, and it’s part of their population destroying plan. There’s a little bit of cat and mouse between the good guys and the bad guys, but the entire resolution happens in the final 50 pages! I was actually kind of surprised that it wrapped up so quickly.
Oh the most hilarious parts of the book were when they’d talk about this new thing, the “internet”. The book was written in the late 90’s, so some of the tech stuff is funny. I liked this book a lot!