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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. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common–they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite. Meanwhile Perry Dawsey awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely . . . he is infected. The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body.
Internet phenom Scott Sigler gives us this cinematic, relentlessly paced novel that mixes and matches genres, combining horror, technothriller, and suspense. INFECTED will crawl beneath your skin and leave fresh blood at every turn.
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Release date
April 1, 2008 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415949535
- File size: 328547 KB
- Duration: 11:24:28
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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This so-called "director's cut" of Sigler's thriller deems itself a cinematic experience sure to put a scare into the listener. A mysterious disease is causing ordinary people to commit brutal murders--even of family and friends. CIA Agent Drew Phillips is trying to get his hands on a live victim for epidemiologists. As narrator, Sigler seems unenthusiastic about his own story--he offers a swift reading, complete with a cheesy score. Sigler's vocal characterizations do not often vary from the matter-of fact tone he uses for the narrative. Though there are a few creative techniques at work--for example, dialogue is delivered through a fuzzy speaker to represent telephone conversations--the final result is mediocre. L.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from February 25, 2008
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 maniacs. 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. One of the infected, former football player Perry Dawsey, doesn't take any crap from anybody, not even the aliens residing in his body. 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. This terrifying page-turner could be the author's breakout book, fueled by an extensive online podcast campaign. 5-city author tour.
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