A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and
leave fresh blood on every page.
"Fraught with tension . . . Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets
The Hot Zone."--Rocky Mountain News
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.
