Infected: A Novel
by: Scott Sigler
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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.
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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Rating: 
- Great read
I just got done reading this and was blown away. Hands down my favorite character out of any book is Perry Dawsey. This had me from start to finish. As soon as I was done I went out and got the sequel Contagious.
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- Worth a read but not great.
Infected is an interesting story, albeit not the most original one in the world. At its heart it really is "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with a twist.
Our basic plotline involves an ex college football star living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One day he startsdeveloping these little rashes on his body. The rashes grow, developing triangle-shaped growths that soon prove to be more sinister than they appear. At the same time, others have been infected as well and are reacting with violent, ... Read More
Rating: - Exciting book, loads of fun to read.
This book is jam packed with violence suspense, and subtle grim humor. This is the best book that I have read since the Harry Potter books. I really like how the characters in the book are developed.
Rating: - Fast-paced, full of profanity and gore, but not a bad story underneath
Gritty urban prose, meets science fiction, meets old fashioned horror in a new modern way. A fast paced romp through more blood and gore than I've read in ages. Sigler presents a new threat to world peace from a galaxy far, far away that Captain Kirk, The President and CIA agent Dew Phillips, can't do anything about.
Based around ex-NFL star, Perry Dawsey, we follow the insertion, growth and mutation of microbial invaders from space. They have only one thing in mind, to open a doorway to let ... Read More
Rating: - Riveting and Revolting
WOW!! First of all, I enjoyed this book so much when I should have been sleeping... I just couldn't put it down! I had to read it one sitting! I haven't felt that rush of adrenaline to keep reading in a long time (I would say not since Frank Schatzing's The Swarm, but I know there have been a few others between then and now). I just love the "music" that has gotten stuck in my head, too - from Frank Sinatra to Paul McCartney! How exciting! I am just really loving this darkly disgusting thriller, despite some ... Read More
- Great readI just got done reading this and was blown away. Hands down my favorite character out of any book is Perry Dawsey. This had me from start to finish. As soon as I was done I went out and got the sequel Contagious.
- Worth a read but not great.Infected is an interesting story, albeit not the most original one in the world. At its heart it really is "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with a twist.
Our basic plotline involves an ex college football star living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One day he startsdeveloping these little rashes on his body. The rashes grow, developing triangle-shaped growths that soon prove to be more sinister than they appear. At the same time, others have been infected as well and are reacting with violent, ... Read More
- Exciting book, loads of fun to read.This book is jam packed with violence suspense, and subtle grim humor. This is the best book that I have read since the Harry Potter books. I really like how the characters in the book are developed.
- Fast-paced, full of profanity and gore, but not a bad story underneathGritty urban prose, meets science fiction, meets old fashioned horror in a new modern way. A fast paced romp through more blood and gore than I've read in ages. Sigler presents a new threat to world peace from a galaxy far, far away that Captain Kirk, The President and CIA agent Dew Phillips, can't do anything about.
Based around ex-NFL star, Perry Dawsey, we follow the insertion, growth and mutation of microbial invaders from space. They have only one thing in mind, to open a doorway to let ... Read More
- Riveting and RevoltingWOW!! First of all, I enjoyed this book so much when I should have been sleeping... I just couldn't put it down! I had to read it one sitting! I haven't felt that rush of adrenaline to keep reading in a long time (I would say not since Frank Schatzing's The Swarm, but I know there have been a few others between then and now). I just love the "music" that has gotten stuck in my head, too - from Frank Sinatra to Paul McCartney! How exciting! I am just really loving this darkly disgusting thriller, despite some ... Read More
