Infected: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001FVJI9W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices he is infected. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.From the Hardcover edition.. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim
. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. One of the infected, former football player Perry Dawsey, doesn't take any crap from anybody, not even the aliens residing in his body. 5-city author tour. Sigler (Ancestor) leads the reader from one startling detail to the next—the creatures learn to speak (feed us we hungry); they grow little black eyes—until even hardened genre fans will find themselves whimpering at each new revelation. CIA agent Dew Phillips must find out why these formerly docile citizens are running amok, aided by Margaret Montoya, a Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist, who reported the first of the strange cases. In Sigler's riveting horror thriller, alien seeds from outer space infect a number of unlucky humans, who develop some unusual symptoms—itchy, blue triangular growths on their skin—that eventually result in the carriers becoming screaming, homicidal mani
Aliens, psychosis, and plague! Oh my! burnthedrapes The first time I read this book was when I picked it randomly from the shelf at the library. I intended to just read the first few pages to get a feel for it, and the next thing I knew I was sitting on the floor next to the shelf utterly engrossed. I'd been on a sci-fi/end of the human race via plague kick for awhile, so the title. Incredibly Graphic and Gory Steven M. Anthony This novel fits into the “plague” genre of fiction with a slight twist. Instead of the infectious agent being a germ, virus or bacteria, the infectious agent in this case is an alien construct which uses human bodies as a host.The warning I would have for a potential reader of this novel is that it is incredibly violen. Cheryl Stout said Ooey gooey meaty and chewy. I have read "Infected" before but wanted to reacquaint myself before reading the next two books in the series - Contagious and the just released Pandemic.As I reread this tale, I remembered the gut wrenching first go round with this book. This book is NOT for the weak of stomach or the those who go all namby pamby when reading abo
Scott Sigler is the world’s most successful podcasting author, with a rabidly loyal following of more than 30,000 subscribers per book. . He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Jody, and their two dogs. His books have held the number one audiobook position on all the podcast aggregators, including iTunes, and his remarkable triumph has made him the subject of profiles in the <