Pandemic

A Novel

By: Scott Sigler

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

Scott Sigler's Infected shocked listeners with a visceral, up-close account of physical metamorphosis and one man's desperate fight for sanity and survival, as "Scary" Perry Dawsey suffered the impact of an alien pathogen's early attempts at mass extinction. In the sequel Contagious, Sigler pulled back the camera and let the listener experience the frantic national response to this growing cataclysm.

And now in Pandemic, the entire human race balances on the razor's edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares.

To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero-a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she's a monster - a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil.

All Margaret knows is that she's broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands. Guilt and nightmares have turned her into a shut-in, too mired in self-hatred even to salvage her marriage, let alone be the warrior she once was.

But she is about to be called into action again. Because before the murderous intelligence was destroyed, it launched one last payload - a soda can-sized container filled with deadly microorganisms that make humans feed upon their own kind.

That harmless-looking container has languished a thousand feet below the surface of Lake Michigan, undisturbed and impotent...until now.

Part Cthulhu epic, part zombie apocalypse and part blockbuster alien-invasion tale, Pandemic completes the Infected trilogy and sets a new high-water mark in the world of horror fiction.

©2014 Scott Sigler (P)2014 Gigantic Productions, LLC

A great closer for a great series.

Zombie apocalypse meets alien invasion meets The Purge. This series wasn't high art or anything, but it was definitely entertaining.

I actually prefer the author as a narrator

Overall I enjoyed this, maybe not quite as much as Infected and Contagious, I think their smaller scope helps ground the story. I had read these all even they came back and can never find anything I want to listen to with my credits so I have them a try as audiobooks. Some people knock Sigler's narration of the first two books, especially for his female character voices, but he gives every character a distinct voice. you can also try he really enjoys telling the story and adds so much energy with his narration.

This narrator bored me, all his character voices sound exactly the same. He would be better as a cheesy romance novel narrator, all his female voices are breathy like he's trying to sound sexy, and his overall narration is so flat I found myself zoning out and would miss but chunks of the book even my mind started wandering. this never happened with Sigler as the narrator, he really keeps the energy and momentum going.

I'd still recommend it, but would have preferred Sigler or the narrator who did Earthcore and Mt. Fitzroy.

Really just well rounded & enjoyable!

Never heard of Sigler prior to stumbling across these books on audible. I have to tell you the only down side to these three books is he didn't narrate this one. Seriously the dude is on point with his narration. We listen to 6-8 hours of books 6 days a week. So we blow through some material. The one thing that can make or break any book is narration.
Great plot. Excellent writing. Not dependent of over descriptive guts and gore. Not too much military hoorah. No childish inappropriate and often so totally unbelievable porn/sex scenes.. this was kind of refreshing. Don't mind the romantic insinuations but for sure could do without the super graphic and explicit step by step descriptive so many authors feel are necessary. Actually as far fetched as it is ..the story line is kind of believable. You just never know.

5 star

Enjoyed a great book ending series from Scott Sigler and
Performance by Phil Gigante was excellente

Great ending!

What a fantastic and emotional ending to the riveting trilogy. I always enjoy Sigler's writing style and he delivers again with this final entry.

A story the series could have done without.

Overall the book was ok, but the ending of the previous book would have been a much more satisfactory ending. It felt drug out and villainized some characters that it didn't really need to.

I liked it!

The book picks up a lot of steam from the middle to the end. Normally I wouldn't want to read a book that drags on but this one is a little too rushed

What happened to the portals?

No mention of portals being built the only role the triangles played was building walls. Kind of a bummer.

Awesome story

Loved the story, the reader this trilogy ending, or did it? Loved the tie in to the other stories in the siglerverse. Keep them coming Scott! From a true junky!!!!

love these books

i re listen to them every couple years . if you like this book check out the metro 2033 series . also a great trilogy