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Infected: A Novel
by Scott Sigler
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Hardcover
Publisher: Crown
ISBN13: 9780307406101
Condition: NEW
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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.
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| Top Notch Alien Invasion Story |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Sci/Fi - Horror is not a genre I usually want to read. But Scott Sigler is the real deal. Read Infected and immediately read the sequel, Contagious, and you will be well rewarded for the time spent. The ending of Infected flows right into the beginning of Contagious.
If you just read Contagious you are missing all the backstory. The experience is attenuated greatly.
I thought after reading Infected that there was nowhere to take the story but I was very wrong. It only deepens in Contagious.
Sigler is a wonderfully creative writer. If you want a Stephen King experience but with a little Jalapeno Pepper, try Sigler.
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| Unbelievable! Anguish, blood and intensity dripping from the pages! |
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This is my first Scott Sigler novel and I must say I am impressed! The man knows how to tell a story! From beginning to end you can feel Perry Dawson's pain, sufferring and paranoia and enjoy every minute of it. The style of storytelling will remind you a little of Michael Crichton and Stephen King mixed together. This book follows Feds trying to study/prevent the parasites and follows the parasite victims through their suffering and insanity. I know the parasite take over of a human has been done time and time again, (The Puppet Masters, Invasion of The Body Snatchers, The Thing, The Tommyknockers and so on) this book borrows a little and uses it very well to tell it's own story. It sounds hokey, but this book made me check every itch I had. So far, no triangles yet.... I reccomend this to any horror/scifi fan who enjoys Stephen King, David Wellington, Bently Little and Brian Keene.
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| Been Here, Read That |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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Borrowing from F. Paul Wilson, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King's work isn't a crime, but it hardly makes this an original idea. From "Tommyknockers" to many of the Repairman Jack books, the idea of an organism taking control of a body is hardly new. Sigler writes some horrific scenes depicting gory and gross body mutilations and fighting, but the characters are so stereotypical that I found it hard to really care about their fate.
A great premise to be sure, just not one that I found to be all that new.
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| Infected: a novel |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I like this book because it shows how an organisum could be used to grow in a body and eventualy control that body to its own intent.
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| Egh.. It was alright. |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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Infected isn't bad. It starts off with a bang and ends with a climax, just the way I like it. However, it does not live up to the hype.. at all.
The premise isn't what I'd call cliche, but it isn't necessarily original either.
The plot is fairly simple and familiar. And the story is by no means 'epic', as most of it, takes place in an apartment. The main character is in and out of consciousness as often as Lindsay Lohan, and it made the story a bit redundant for me.
But I think, the fact that it takes place, on a rather small scale, is why it makes such a solid story, and the familiarity of the premise, is how it takes the reader to such uncomfortable places.
It's Sigler's pulpy witty narrative, that makes 'Infected' so entertaining, for me at least.. He's slightly sarcastic, but sharp and humorous. I plan on reading the sequel. 'Infected' is just the tip of the iceberg.
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