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Infected

A Novel

By Scott Sigler

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| Hardcover | 9780307406101

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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 Continue

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.

Infected is the first major print release from Internet phenom Scott Sigler, whose podcast-only audiobooks have drawn an immense cult following, with more than three million individual episodes downloaded. Now Sigler storms the bookstore shelves with this cinematic, relentlessly paced novel that mixes and matches genres, combining horror, technothriller, and suspense in a heady mix that is equal parts Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King.
Infected will crawl beneath your skin and leave fresh blood on every page.

Critics

  • Ill communication

    Infected by Scott Sigler Hodder and Stoughton, £6.99 Sigler enjoys a massive following thanks to the podcast download of his novels EarthCore and Ancestor, with fans accessing over three million files. Infected, billed as "new horror", is his first U ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - INFECTED by Scott Sigler

    Scott Sigler is an enormously popular author whose ability to think outside the box is not limited to his literary work. Tired of collecting rejection slips, he began sharing his novels with the masses by podcasting them, a few chapters at a time, an ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010

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  • I also listened to this in Audio immediately after listening to Ancestor I believe. I recently obtained it from the local library and has once again got me craving more Sigler.

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    Dkissell said on Jan 11, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • in print, finally

    I listened to the podcast of Infected some months ago, when it was still titled Infection. I'm re-listening to it during my daily commute and I'm finally able to read it the good old fashioned way. I simply had to buy the actual book given all the fun I'd had by listening to the podcast.
    I don ... (continue)

    I listened to the podcast of Infected some months ago, when it was still titled Infection. I'm re-listening to it during my daily commute and I'm finally able to read it the good old fashioned way. I simply had to buy the actual book given all the fun I'd had by listening to the podcast.
    I don't like horror really, but Sigler here strikes a good balance between technothriller (think Tom Clancy), hard science (think Michael Chricton) and some Stephen King. It's fun and thrilling, definitely a page turner if not exactly classic literature. But then again I read for for fun...

    The 3rd re-reading is actually a re-listening of the free podcast you can find at podiobooks.com.

    I would be high time that someone reprinted Earthcore and Ancestor, and brought The Rookie and Nocturnal to the presses...

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    Carlo said on Apr 22, 2008 | Add your feedback

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