Scott Sigler. (2014). Pandemic: A Novel. Crown.

Scott Sigler. 2014. Pandemic: A Novel. Crown.

Scott Sigler, Pandemic: A Novel. Crown, 2014.

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In the final book in the Infected trilogy, the entire human race balances on the razor’s edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares.
To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero—a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she’s a monster—a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. 
All Margaret knows is that she’s broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands. Guilt and nightmares have turned her into a shut-in, too mired in self-hatred even to salvage her marriage, let alone be the warrior she once was. But she is about to be called into action again. Because before the murderous intelligence was destroyed, it launched one last payload: a soda can–sized container filled with deadly microorganisms that make humans feed upon their own kind. That harmless-looking container has languished a thousand feet below the surface of Lake Michigan, undisturbed and impotent . . . until now.
Part Cthulhu epic, part zombie apocalypse and part blockbuster alien-invasion tale, Pandemic completes the Infected trilogy and sets a new high-water mark in the world of horror fiction.

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   • source: James S.A. Corey, New York Times bestselling author of Leviathan Wakes
   • content: "With its razor-sharp prose and attention to detail, combined with skin-crawling body horror and apocalyptic threat, Pandemic reads like the love child of Michael Crichton and David Cronenberg. I haven't been this creeped out by a book in a long time."
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   • source: Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Extinction Machine
   • content: "This one's a killer. In Pandemic, our chance against the apocalypse hangs by a slender thread of hope. Sigler brings serious game with a book that rocks the action while delving deep into character. Highly recommended."
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   • source: Ramen Naam, author of Nexus
   • content: "Page-turning, spellinding, horrifying, and thrilling...a pulse-pounding alien disease outbreak-slash-invasion story."
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   • source: Rocky Mountain News
   • content: Praise for Scott Sigler's Infected and Contagious:
     
     "Fraught with tension...Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Hot Zone."
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   • source: James Rollins
   • content: "A pulpy masterpiece of action, terror, and suspense."
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   • source: Lincoln Child
   • content: "A marvel of gonzo, in-your-face, up-to-the-minute terror."
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     Starred review from November 25, 2013
     Bestseller Sigler’s conclusion to his Infected trilogy, a terrifying horror thriller, improves on its predecessor, 2008’s Contagious. A brief prologue brings newcomers up to speed: an alien race known as the Creators launched a machine to Earth that sent out probes containing seeds with the capacity to infiltrate human bodies and convert them into violent zombielike creatures. Humanity has managed to destroy most of the probes, but one remains intact at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The aliens depend on “three existing, proven designs”: hatchlings, whose main purpose is to kill; crawlers, which use hive intelligence to infect; and mommies, which turn people into spore-distribution systems. Prospects for survival are slim as the numbers of the infected and the dead ratchet up geometrically. Scientists, led by Dr. Margaret Montoya, struggle to develop an antidote, racing the clock as the news gets more and more bleak. Sigler does almost too good a job in creating an existential threat, and, in keeping with the hit TV series The Walking Dead, he doesn’t hesitate to dispose of key characters. This apocalyptic epic will happily engage World War Z fans. Agent: Byrd Leavell, Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.

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     December 15, 2013
     Yeah, yeah. Space zombies have taken over the world, courtesy of Sigler (Nocturnal, 2012, etc.) and his capable if derivative Infected series, which winds down with this volume. Fans of the series will know that it started as a kind of police procedural that got increasingly supernatural and sci-fi-ish, a kind of Childhood's End with oodles of mayhem. Sigler lays it on plenty thick here--among other things, the Navy is now blowing itself apart, half populated with the "infected" and half with swabbies still eligible for honorable discharge. And why the Navy? Because somewhere under Lake Michigan, something very strange is happening. Margaret Montoya, the tough and resourceful doctor who's helped battle the alien virus, is back in action in a world full of unpretty pictures: "His own blood had baked flaky-dry on his skin. A softball-sized pustule on his left collarbone streamed black rot down his wide chest." Eck. (And that's not even to mention the severed penis that the dude is clutching, presumably his own.) It wouldn't be a proper shoot'em-up without an assortment of Sgt. Rock types--Navy SEALs, Delta Force, top cops and ops, and so forth--with the usual gallows humor ("Your courage is immeasurable, Roger. If you don't turn into a plant, drinks are on me"). Sigler excels at snappy dialogue, but the story itself is too familiar for anyone who grew up on a diet of The Omega Man and Aliens. Still, for those who can't get enough of must-eat-brains yellow monster types with extremely bad attitudes, this is just the book. Will the Earthlings prevail? Cue Count Floyd, the old SCTV creature-feature host: "Oooh, very scary, boys and girls." Or maybe not. Competent enough but without many surprises.

     COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     December 1, 2013
     Sigler's gritty Infected trilogy wraps up as the author takes humanity to the brink of extinction. The extraterrestrial invaders, who came to Earth in the form of a virus that takes over the human body, seemed to have been vanquished or at least seriously roadblocked in the last book (Contagious, 2009). But the aliens' last-ditch attempt to exterminate humanity lies, waiting to be activated, at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes. Dr. Margaret Montoya, who has already done more than her share to keep humanity from being wiped out, is coerced out of self-imposed retirement to investigate some strange goings-on in Lake Michigan and finds herself on the front lines of the alien invaders' most powerful attack. As human beings turn into cannibalistic monsters, and it seems impossible to contain this new threat, Margaret puts her own life on the line to save billions. Sigler's brand of visceral, in-your-face horror, complemented by well-drawn characters and some very smart writing, will make this a surefire hit with horror and sf aficionados.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero—a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she’s a monster—a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. 
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