In a Moscow laboratory a genetic accident kills everything in sight. While the scientists responsible try to destroy the mutation, a group of men in the highest echelons of the Kremlin formulate another plan for it.

At the same time, the United States leaks word to the Soviets of an ultimate weapon that does not exist. When the Russians hear of it, the death watch begins.

A tight, tense, powerful story of allies and enemies, spies and traitors, megalomaniacs and people caught in the web of circumstances, DEATH WATCH targets in on one of man's greatest fears: the breakdown of civilization.

Originally recorded for radio and is slightly abridged.

Genre: Mystery