Infected
A Novel
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3.9 • 14 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page.
“Fraught with tension . . . Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Hot Zone.”—Rocky Mountain News
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, 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. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
Customer Reviews
A Great Read
I was searching for a good story. This is one. I was leery at first as the story sounded a bit like zombies. This is better than zombies. It's technical. It's in depth. It left me wanting more with every turn of a page. It's the kind of story you find yourself mulling over when not reading it. I was delighted there was a second book. And then discovered a third! The story never gets boring. There is a kind of panic throughout that never lets up. I feel for these characters. Money well spent. More please!
Pretty Good
It was a fun read and was well written. If you are looking for something new, this series could be for you.
Fantastic read
I brought the book at a thrift shop for a dollar. It sounded good, I also got the second book at the same time. I have not be able to put it down since.
Well written, very descriptive, creepy and paints a good mental image. The book is nothing like I expected, it is 100% better. Totally looking into more of his books.