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Infected: A Novel
by Scott Sigler
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Hardcover
Publisher: Crown
ISBN13: 9780307406101
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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.
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| Great and addicting read |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Not the best book that I have ever read, but a fun read. Had me hooked the whole way through. Especially appreciate the good cover design. Best to listen to it in podcast form.
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| Terrible book |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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This book grew tiresome very quickly. The author tries too hard to emulate Stephen King, with the colloquial language and the gore, but he fails to offer a convincing plot or any character development. The chapter titles--meant to be pithy and creative--also grew wearisome after about the 3rd chapter. Toward the end of the book, I just wanted it to end--I no longer cared what the little triangle things were.
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| no-bout-a-doubt-it |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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This book was an excellent page turner. Everytime I needed a break from reading, i was just to intrigued from stopping. There was a lot of scientific and anatomy in this book but it made for a great book. I would recommend this to anyone. Cant wait to read the sequel.
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| Scott Sigler Is Tha Bomb!! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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The cover caught my eye while browsing the library one day. I was mesmerized by it actually. I could not put this book down as I glanced through it's pages. I am a junkie for life. Oprah...get this man on your show!! Buy this book! To be continued...
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| Not a good book |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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This happens about once a month. I go to the library, see a book with an interesting cover ("A triangle shaped iris?! Well heck, I'll read about that!")and I take it home. Then, after about 50 pages I am just frustrated and annoyed by the poor writing. Then, for the remainder of my time reading the book, my poor husband has to endure my constant groans, copious use of expletives and long-winded diatribes aimed at the disaster that is that book.
This was the case with Infected. I do not recommend this book. For some unknown reason I saw this book through to the end and I can tell you straight out: it is not worth reading. The end was dull. The story was full of cliches. The action was sparse and predictable. Just avoid this book. Please.
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