Infected: A Novel
by Scott Sigler
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Author: Scott SiglerEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 0307406105
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Crown
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Book Review: Fast spreading Infection
Summary: 5 Stars
This book starts off with a bang (literally, with a suicide) and moves at a fast clip straight through to the ending. The author drops enough hints that you should be able to figure out what's going on, and yet holds enough back that there are some surprising twists along the way. It's both science fiction and horror as well as a bit of a commentary on how the government keeps tabs on those it wants to keep tabs on. There were several times in the book where I was either surprised at the way the story turned, or angry at the characters for not doing something that would have brought them closer to understanding what was going on much earlier in the book. But then, that's the joy of reading something like this; Scott Sigler, like Stephen King, has a knack for making you feel like you'd be so much smarter than the characters in the same situation. Sigler also used that "familiar" tone of narration that King has employed so well.
With such a fast pace, there's not a lot of time to get to know anyone but the main characters very well -- Dew Phillips, Margaret Montoya and especially Perry Dawsey are well-drawn and play very different roles in bringing the story to its conclusion -- but points have to be given to Sigler for at least giving some of his secondary characters (like Bill Miller and Clarence Otto) enough personality that they stand out from the masses of secondary and tertiary characters.
Scott Sigler is an author to watch.
Summary of Infected: A Novel
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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