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

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

Loved it!

I truly enjoy Scott Sigler's books. This final book in the series is predictable yet still enjoyable. I wish Mr. Sigler would have read this one as with the others but still narrated very well.

buckle your seatbelt!

Scott Sigler’s first two books in the Infection trilogy mix action, blood and gore , and “Pandemic” is no different. Non-stop action with gory details put you in the middle of the action right from the start. Not for the faint of heart, this book will have you floored from cover to cover.

I'll admit I'm not a big Phil Gigante fan. Every time he does a woman's voice they all sound the same and I just don't think he does that good a job with the non-dialog stuff. That said his voices are pretty good and the production value is pretty good, but I'd much rather the author read this book like he did with the first two.

I will never look at Triangles the same again

Would you consider the audio edition of Pandemic to be better than the print version?

I am a fan of the audiobooks. Due to my schedule and on the road a lot.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I really liked Margaret throughout the series. And she steps out more fully as a character in the third book.

Have you listened to any of Phil Gigante’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Phil Gigante is one of my favorite narrators. Although Scott Sigler did the narration on books one and two in this trilogy, I had no problem with character identification in this book.

Any additional comments?

This trilogy grabs you and takes off like a rocket, but definitely should be read in order. 4 STARS

Quality, quantity. good all over. Buy it.

This is a worthwhile story. The entire thing is quality. There is no weak link. Buy it. Also check out The Rookie.