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Infected: A Novel
by Scott Sigler
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Hardcover
Publisher: Crown
ISBN13: 9780307406101
Condition: NEW
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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, 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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| Powerful storytelling |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Where to start with this book. Scott Sigler was one of the pioneering voices in podiobooks, and this was one of the first great works in that form.
I wouldn't say this story is scary so much as it is gripping and exciting. I hate horror. I couldn't sit through The Exorcist. This wasn't that kind of scary.
Random, otherwise normal, healthy people, have flown into bursts of violence, killing those closest to them before killing themselves. There isn't much linking them except weird, triangular growths, a sudden onset of paranoid psychosis, and that the corpse decomposes to goo in a matter of days.
Dew Phillips, CIA Agent, leads a team to capture a live victim for study.
Former football star Perry Dawson has found the strange growths, and he is one victim utterly unwilling to lie down and play victim.
They are both determined to understand and destroy the triangles, and both tragically pitted against each other. When they come to a head, you'll find yourself rooting in turn for one and then the other.
I will say this book would have benefited from an editor's hand. It lacks a little polish. First we see the term "CDC" many times, which is fine, everyone knows what it means, than we get a definition. The Latin is off. "E unum pluribus" still means "From many, one" but with a stronger focus on the "one" than the "many". From one, many" would be "E pluribum unus", which might have given more of the slightly off feel he was going for. Little things like that. If foul language offends you, you don't want to read this book.
Altogether, this is a must read for sci-fi and horror fans alike.
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| I feel like I am missing something |
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This book is poorly written and endlessly cliche. Despite all of the good reviews here, I did not find anything here scary or inventive in terms of science fiction. It feels like a freshman writing majors first attempt at a novel and that being said, its not all bad but very little is good.
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| Top Notch Alien Invasion Story |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Sci/Fi - Horror is not a genre I usually want to read. But Scott Sigler is the real deal. Read Infected and immediately read the sequel, Contagious, and you will be well rewarded for the time spent. The ending of Infected flows right into the beginning of Contagious.
If you just read Contagious you are missing all the backstory. The experience is attenuated greatly.
I thought after reading Infected that there was nowhere to take the story but I was very wrong. It only deepens in Contagious.
Sigler is a wonderfully creative writer. If you want a Stephen King experience but with a little Jalapeno Pepper, try Sigler.
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| Unbelievable! Anguish, blood and intensity dripping from the pages! |
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This is my first Scott Sigler novel and I must say I am impressed! The man knows how to tell a story! From beginning to end you can feel Perry Dawson's pain, sufferring and paranoia and enjoy every minute of it. The style of storytelling will remind you a little of Michael Crichton and Stephen King mixed together. This book follows Feds trying to study/prevent the parasites and follows the parasite victims through their suffering and insanity. I know the parasite take over of a human has been done time and time again, (The Puppet Masters, Invasion of The Body Snatchers, The Thing, The Tommyknockers and so on) this book borrows a little and uses it very well to tell it's own story. It sounds hokey, but this book made me check every itch I had. So far, no triangles yet.... I reccomend this to any horror/scifi fan who enjoys Stephen King, David Wellington, Bently Little and Brian Keene.
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| Been Here, Read That |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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Borrowing from F. Paul Wilson, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King's work isn't a crime, but it hardly makes this an original idea. From "Tommyknockers" to many of the Repairman Jack books, the idea of an organism taking control of a body is hardly new. Sigler writes some horrific scenes depicting gory and gross body mutilations and fighting, but the characters are so stereotypical that I found it hard to really care about their fate.
A great premise to be sure, just not one that I found to be all that new.
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