Download or read book Plague Ship written by Leonard Goldberg and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mysterious illness strikes aboard a luxury Caribbean cruise ship, Dr. David Ballineau and his nurse girlfriend must work to contain the outbreak, even as the mutinous passengers seek to break their quarantine and steer toward land.
Download or read book Plague a Medical Thriller written by Victor Methos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DEADLIEST DISEASE IN HISTORY . . . A lethal pathogen appears on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control is handed the case and asked to investigate its origins and containment. A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE THAT IS NOT WHO HE APPEARS TO BE . . . Samantha discovers a lethal pathogen unlike any she has encountered in her lifetime. Extremely contagious with a mortality rate higher than any disease ever recorded, it is an extinction level event. A man with an intimate knowledge of the microorganism offers her help. But Samantha Bower begins to suspect he is not who he says he is. HUMANITY HANGS ON THE EDGE OF A CLIFF . . . Samantha begins to realize there are forces at work that she can't understand. Pressures are being applied from outside sources and not all of them wish for a vaccine. But Samantha is sure of one thing: if a vaccine isn't developed, humanity may soon be an endangered species. . . ABOUT THE AUTHORVictor Methos is the bestselling author of THE WHITE ANGEL MURDER, the #1 mystery book in the United States and United Kingdom for over eight weeks. He is a former prosecutor specializing in violent crime and is currently a criminal defense attorney in the United States. He is on a quest to climb the "Seven Summits," the seven highest peaks on earth, and attain his certificate as a deep-sea submersible pilot. He can be reached through his blog at www.methosreview.blogspot.com
Download or read book Plague written by Gary Birken and published by Erupen Titles. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Franklin Children's Hospital, an inexplicable disease is reaching terrifying proportions. One by one, the patients of pediatrician Annick Clement are dying. Tracing it to a strain of killer toxin, she's made a chilling discovery. The deaths are not coincidence. They're not accidents. It's the unfathomable scheme of a bioterrorist-a medical genius working in Annick's own shadow, and possessed by a diabolical compulsion to kill. For Annick, stopping him means laying her own life on the line. And fast. Because the terror is spreading.
Download or read book Outbreak written by Robin Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-spreading disease with no cure takes the United States by storm in Robin Cook's “most harrowing medical horror story” (The New York Times). Murder and intrigue reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control investigates—and soon uncovers the medical world's deadliest secret...
Download or read book The Blood Zone written by Michael Angel and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unknown pathogen leaves divers bleeding out from horrific wounds.A film of hot water no thicker than a child's wrist separates it from the open ocean.Its escape threatens to turn a day at the beach into a nightmare!Hidden below the Mediterranean lies a warren of undersea trenches, punctuated by an explosive cluster of deep-water hydrothermal vents. But when a team of aquanauts return half-dead and covered in festering slashes, epidemiologist Leigh Austen is called in to aid the investigation.Austen must team up with security specialist Nicholas Navarro to piece the puzzle together. The trail leads them to an eccentric nobleman's mountain estate, down to a state-of-the-art underseas laboratory, and then out into the boiling dark of the ocean's depths!And through it all, they'll come face to face with an organism that, should it escape its watery tomb, will forever mark the oceans as off limits to humanity.Hope they work best under pressure.Author's Note: The Blood Zone A Pandemic Medical Thriller is a self-contained work and does not end on a cliffhanger. It contains a limited amount of strong language, gore, and some graphic violence. Ratings-wise, it would either be a hard PG-13 or soft R. Please decide to purchase accordingly.Included with this story are previews and a special offer for the novella, The Plague Walker: A Leigh Austen Short Medical Thriller.Reviews of The Plague Walker Pandemic Medical Thrillers: Angel manages the nearly impossible...creating memorable characters in the midst of an intriguing mystery, action, humor and heart. -- JC Andrijeski, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Quentin Black mystery seriesFast-paced action and sly wit make Angel's writing irresistible fun. -- Rebecca Moesta, NYT Bestselling co-author of Young Jedi KnightsInterview with the Author: Q - What makes a Plague Walker Pandemic Medical Thriller special? A - I've enjoyed thought-provoking medical or science-based fiction ever since I was old enough to read Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain and Robin Cook's Coma. I'm also a big fan of the modern-day thriller writers like Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle, and Tess Gerritsen.So I've been writing these new medical thrillers as a unique mix of the two kinds of books. Epidemiologist Leigh Austen encounters similarly apocalyptic threats...and she does in a world rife with international skullduggery and conspiracy!Q - Why should readers give these books a try?A - Because you'll get to meet a bunch of memorable characters - scientists, soldiers, doctors, even a shadowy Nostradamus-like figure - in the midst of intriguing medical thrillers filled with action, humor and heart. (Yes, I paraphrased one of my reviewers, but I can't put it any better.)Q - Tell us more about epidemiologist Leigh Austen - what makes her tick?A - Leigh's the kind of person who'll move mountains to help someone. She also carries hidden scars from the time her medical team was wiped out by a killer virus in The Plague Walker. For that reason alone she'll go to any length to stop a local outbreak from turning into a global pandemic
Download or read book The Patron Saint of Plagues written by Barth Anderson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biological thriller of the near future, postinsurrection Mexico has undermined the superpower of the United States. But while the rivals battle over borders, a pestilence beyond politics threatens to explode into a worldwide epidemic. . . . Since the rise of the Holy Renaissance, Ascension—once known as Mexico City—has become the most populous city in the world, its citizens linked to a central government net through wetware implanted in their brains. But while their dictator grows fat with success, the masses are captivated by Sister Domenica, an insurgent nun whose weekly pirate broadcasts prophesy a wave of death. All too soon, Domenica’s nightmarish prediction proves true, and Ascension’s hospitals are overrun with victims of a deadly fever. As the rampant plague kills too quickly to be contained, Mexico smuggles its last hope over the violently contested border. . . . Henry David Stark is a crack virus hunter for the American Center for Disease Control and a veteran of global humanitarian efforts. But this disease is unlike any he’s seen before—and there seems to be no way to cure or control it. Racing against time, Stark battles corruption to uncover a horrifying truth: this is no ordinary outbreak but a deliberately unleashed man-made virus . . . and the killer is someone Stark knows.
Download or read book The Reaper s Scythe written by Michael Angel and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bioterrorist's weapon devastates a South American tourist hub.It's a pathogenic cruise missile designed for stealth and speed.And the entire human race is in its crosshairs!After surviving a Paleozoic nightmare bacteria and a quarter-megaton nuclear blast, Nick Navarro figures that life can't throw anything worse at him.He couldn't be more wrong.An unknown biological weapon wreaks havoc upon the country of Suriname, leaving one of his best friends among the ranks of the infected. The only hope for him and the others sickened lies in the hands of epidemiologist Leigh Austen.Leigh rushes to identify the pathogen amidst the madness of a city thrown into chaos. She'll be aided by a team of private mercenaries and a disgraced Capo of the local drug cartel. Together, they must untangle the web of lies keeping a terrible truth from seeing the light of day.And what Austen finds in the deepest, darkest valleys of the country's rain forests will haunt her dreams.That is, if she's able to make it out alive.Author's Note: The Reaper's Scythe: A Pandemic Medical Thriller is a self-contained work and does not end on a cliffhanger. It contains a limited amount of strong language, gore, and some graphic violence. Ratings-wise, it would either be a hard PG-13 or soft R. Please decide to purchase accordingly.
Download or read book The Plague Tales written by Ann Benson and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague. In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death. . . . Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries. From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past. Praise for The Plague Tales “Benson reveals a formidable talent as she blends historical fiction with a near-future bio-thriller.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Harrowing . . . Will give readers both nightmares and thrills . . . A carefully woven page-turner from which . . . Robin Cook and Michael Crichton could learn.”—Library Journal “A hard-to-put-down thriller steeped in historical fiction and bio-tech sci-fi.”—Middlesex News (Mass.)
Download or read book The Devil s Noose written by Michael Angel and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thing that wiped out the dinosaurs is about to make its comeback.It's a trillion times smaller than a killer asteroid.And it's fallen into the hands of a madman.After surviving a horrific outbreak of the Black Nile virus, epidemiologist Leigh Austen's done her best to bury memories along with the bodies.But when a call for help from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrives at her lab, she's got to face her nightmares all over again. Something's wiping entire villages clean of humans and wildlife in a war-torn former Soviet Republic. Leigh's skills are desperately needed to identify and stop the pathogen's spread before it explodes into a global pandemic.Austen's team of scientists and armed security set off into the epicenter of the hot zone: over a mile straight down the throat of the Karakul, the deepest open-pit mine in Asia. From there, they'll contend with treacherous military officers, caverns filled with scalding-hot poisonous gas, and an organism so deadly it annihilated the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago. What Leigh and her people discover will shake them to their very core.If they survive.Author's Note: The Devil's Noose: A Pandemic Medical Thriller is a self-contained work and does not end on a cliffhanger. It contains a limited amount of strong language, gore, and some graphic violence. Ratings-wise, it would either be a hard PG-13 or soft R. Please decide to purchase accordingly.
Download or read book Plague written by C. C. Humphreys and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The French Executioner, an epic and thrilling tale of a serial killer who threatens Londonâe(tm)s rich and poor during the Great Plague of 1665. If you enjoy novels by CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, you will love PLAGUE. London, May 1665. On a dark road outside London, a simple robbery goes horribly wrong âe" when the gentlemanly highwayman, William Coke, discovers that his intended victims have been brutally slaughtered. Suspected of the murders, Coke is forced into an uneasy alliance with the man who pursues him âe" the relentless thief-taker, Pitman. Together they seek the killer âe" and uncover a conspiracy that reaches from the glittering, debauched court of King Charles to the worst slum in the city, St Giles in the Fields. But thereâe(tm)s another murderer moving through the slums, the taverns and palaces, slipping under the doorways of the rich. A mass murderer. Plagueâe¦
Download or read book The Eleventh Plague written by John S. Marr and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two children die of a disease thought to be nonexistent. Within hours, horses are dying of an unidentified virus. Behind these plagues is a morbidly brilliant serial killer with a dangerously sophisticated knowledge of toxins and an obsession with biblical retribution. He must be stopped before the worst comes--The Eleventh Plague.
Download or read book Unnatural Exposure written by Patricia Cornwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kay Scarpetta finds herself pitted against a possible bioterrorist in this suspense-filled read from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. When a woman turns up dismembered in a landfill, Scarpetta initially suspects the work of a serial killer she’s been tracking. But her investigation turns far more dangerous when she realizes the victim’s skin is covered in an unusual rash—and Scarpetta herself may have just been exposed to a deadly virus.
Download or read book Outbreak written by Robin Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-spreading disease with no cure takes the United States by storm in Robin Cook's “most harrowing medical horror story” (The New York Times). Murder and intrigue reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control investigates—and soon uncovers the medical world's deadliest secret...
Download or read book Plague Ship written by Frank G. Slaughter and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author of Code Five, Doctor's Wives, and Doctor's Daughters High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, an archaeologist stumbles upon an ancient tomb, unwittingly releasing the germs from a civilization doomed by a plague over 5,000 years ago. What happens when this deadly organism, for which there is no antidote, reappears, forms the basis of this sensational novel by the author of Code Five. This is the story of one man in particular—Dr. Grant Reed and the dedicated crew of the international hospital ship Mercy, as they set about the task of quarantining the first victims of a hideous plague. Set adrift by frightened Peruvians, the aging and crippled ship faces a hurricane, mutinous patients, and even a pair of great white sharks, grisly mascots of a ship of death. . . . Frank Slaughter here takes on one of the most important and exciting subjects to be found among his novels—the complex, high-stakes world of interglobal medicine, taking us behind the public deeds to the private people whose courage can make the difference between today's flus . . . and tomorrow's headlines. This is one of Frank Slaughter's finest medical suspense stories, a superbly thrilling tale based on some all-too- real possibilities.
Download or read book The Wildfire Pathogen written by Michael Angel and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top-secret flight carrying a cargo of deadly pathogens crashes in the Alaskan wilderness. Amidst the bodies, five vials of a catastrophically contagious virus have vanished. This wasn't an accident. And the person responsible...has no demands! Not all airplane crashes attract an epidemiologist's attention. But the crash of a top-secret flight carrying bioflasks brimming with deadly pathogens makes Leigh Austen sit up and take notice. The cargo plane that slammed into the Alaskan wilderness carried six vials of a lethal orthohantavirus. Each vial contains enough material to ignite its own firestorm of contagion. And one already lies shattered on an icy hillside, its contents scattered to the wind. Austen's pulled into the CDC's desperate efforts to contain the outbreak before it blossoms into a full bore pandemic. But the five remaining vials are nowhere to be found at the crash site. It isn't long before she comes to an unthinkable conclusion: this crash was no accident. Security Specialist Nicholas Navarro doesn't think it was an accident either. Together, they'll have to unravel a conspiracy that stretches from Alaska's North Slope to Washington D.C.'s inner circles to stop a terrorist - one who has no demands to make. But the clock is ticking...and they're already almost out of time. Author's Note: The Wildfire Pathogen: A Pandemic Medical Thriller is a self-contained work and does not end on a cliffhanger. It contains a limited amount of gore, violence, and strong language. Ratings-wise, it would either be a hard PG-13 or soft R. Please decide to purchase accordingly. Included with this story are links to purchase the full-length medical thrillers The Devil's Noose and The Reaper's Scythe. Reviews of The Plague Walker Pandemic Medical Thrillers: "Angel manages the nearly impossible...creating memorable characters in the midst of an intriguing mystery, action, humor and heart." -- JC Andrijeski, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Quentin Black mystery series "Fast-paced action and sly wit make Angel's writing irresistible fun." -- Rebecca Moesta, NYT Bestselling co-author of Young Jedi Knights Interview with the Author: Q - What makes a Plague Walker Pandemic Medical Thriller special? A - I've enjoyed thought-provoking medical or science-based fiction ever since I was old enough to read Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain and Robin Cook's Coma. I'm also a big fan of the modern-day thriller writers like Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle, and Tess Gerritsen. So I've been writing these new medical thrillers as a unique mix of the two kinds of books. Epidemiologist Leigh Austen encounters similarly apocalyptic threats...and she does in a world rife with international skullduggery and conspiracy! Q - Why should readers give these books a try? A - Because you'll get to meet a bunch of memorable characters - scientists, soldiers, doctors, even a shadowy Nostradamus-like figure - in the midst of intriguing medical thrillers filled with action, humor and heart. (Yes, I paraphrased one of my reviewers, but I can't put it any better.) Q - Tell us more about epidemiologist Leigh Austen - what makes her tick? A - Leigh's the kind of person who'll move mountains to help someone. She also carries hidden scars from the time her medical team was wiped out by a killer virus in The Plague Walker. For that reason alone she'll go to any length to stop a local outbreak from turning into a global pandemic.
Download or read book We All Fall Down written by Daniel Kalla and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A tightly plotted thriller, energetic and completely believable.” Booklist No person is left unscathed, no family untouched. Death grows insatiable. Alana Vaughn, an infectious diseases expert with NATO, is urgently summoned to Genoa by an ex-lover to examine a critically ill patient. She’s stunned to discover that the illness is a recurrence of the Black Death. Alana soon suspects bioterrorism, but her WHO counterpart, Byron Menke, disagrees. In their desperate hunt to track down Patient Zero, they stumble across an 800-year-old monastery and a medieval journal that might hold the secret to the present-day outbreak. With the lethal disease spreading fast and no end in sight, it’s a race against time to uncover the truth before millions die.
Download or read book Scourge a Medical Thriller written by Victor Methos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE END OF THE WORLD Dr. Samantha Bower witnessed the obliteration of human society. Entire continents decimated by a virus of unknown origins. Only a bleak world of ash and blood remains. One in which the survivors fundamentally change what it means to be human. Samantha now struggles to make sense of the devastation, and the horrific response of humanity to an extinction level event. Left with little else, she accepts help from a man once sent to kill her. He offers her hope: a small village in the Congolese jungle unaffected by the virus. A place called Shangri-La that he claims to have seen firsthand. A place where the deepest mysteries of man's arrogance over nature will finally be answered for her. The world a barbaric wasteland, she must place her trust in a man that is fundamentally untrustworthy. With no other options, she goes with him in search for Shangri-La, and will discover a truth she could never have imagined.
