Michael Crichton fans won't want to miss this one.' - Publishers Weekly 'Breakneck pacing and nonstop action compensate for the predictable story line and the occasional contrivance. The book doesn't read like a modestly beefed-up pitch for a movie it's a rich, textured, and downright impossible-to-put-down story.' - Booklist (starred review) a seamless, massively effective transition from the visual medium to the literary. 'A terrific thriller: ambitious, audacious, gory, scary, flamboyant, and funny. 'Unlikely heroes battle a frightening fungus that could wipe out humanity in this taut, mordant thriller debut.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Will that be enough to save all of humanity? All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards-one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism.

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