Chasing Shadows

John Callahan is an ordinary man with a great family and solid, albeit boring, career as a tax attorney. One morning he notices a small news article about a new virus originating out of Ecuador. He's not concerned until in the coming months, the virus (dubbed the Curse) begins to spread and turn into a global pandemic of unprecedented proportions. The Curse has a chance of becoming a cataclysmic, and ultimately a species ending, event.

Roger Boulden is a sheriff's deputy in Eastern Oregon who battles with issues of anger and violence. When called up from the Army Reserves after martial law is declared, he quickly becomes the leader of the Oregon Territory after the federal government collapses. His rise to leadership is due more to attrition than to intelligence or skill.

These two men both fighting for survival come to realize that one cannot survive without the destruction of the other. What is it about John Callahan that makes him such a continuing threat to Roger Boulden and mankind as a whole? If John Callahan can survive, will he even want to?

This book takes a look at a realistic and frightening scenario that deals with how ordinary people, faced with extraordinary challenges, fight to survive.