The Atlantis Plague

The Origin Mystery, Book 2

By: A. G. Riddle

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

A PANDEMIC 70,000 YEARS IN THE MAKING WILL CHANGE HUMANITY...FOREVER.

In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve.

As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.

Immari International offers a different approach: do nothing. Let the plague run its course. The Immari envision a world populated by the genetically superior survivors--a new human race, ready to fulfill its destiny.

With control of the world population hanging in the balance, the Orchid Alliance and the Immari descend into open warfare. Now humanity's last hope is to find a cure, and Kate alone holds the key to unraveling the mystery surrounding the Atlantis Plague. The answer may lie in understanding pivotal events in human history--events when the human genome mysteriously changed. Kate's journey takes her across the barren wastelands of Europe and northern Africa, but it's her research into the past that takes her where she never expected to go. She soon discovers that the history of human evolution is not what it seems--and setting it right may require a sacrifice she never imagined.

©2013 A.G. Riddle (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Could not get past the narrator

What did you like best about The Atlantis Plague? What did you like least?

Just like in Riddle's book 1... He used Stephen Bel Davies as the narrator. I can't stand his voice. My mistake was purchasing both books at the same time before listening to the first one. Lesson learned.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

No idea. I could not get to the end.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

His voice.

Was The Atlantis Plague worth the listening time?

Not really I don't think I listen very long. I tried, hoping that maybe the narrator's voice would have been more tolerable in this book but it was not. He still sounded like a robot with a nasal problem.

Any additional comments?

get a different narrator.

Let this be your final battlefield...

Spoiler alert. Reminiscent of that Star Trek Original Series episode entitled "Let this be your final battlefield" we see that the plague and conflict between Kate Warren and Dorian Sloan is a continuation of a dispute between two Atlanteans. Sloan believes in evolution by a near extinction level plague and Warren who thinks the human race can evolve well enough without the widespread death and destruction. Riddle introduces some fascinating technologies that give the Alanteans God like powers. Powers that guide human evolution over thousands of years, resurrect people from the dead and implant memories in people that actively guide them long after the original host body has deceased. Just as in Star Trek the world is decimated and brought to the brink of total ruin and a near extinction of the human race. Dorian uses deceit and guile to further his ambitions. True to form Kate is compassionate to a fault and David does his level best to turn the tide against all odds. Riddle has delivered another tome on the epic journey of human development.

Solid story. Pacing is good. Couple of nice twists

Well done. Narration was very good. Easy to listen to. Good use of accurate scientific concepts. Imaginative story. Worth the listen.

Wild story!

Narrator was great! Story was complex with lots of characters to remember. Overall, I did enjoy it. I recommend it.

Answer to where do we come ?

very interesting answer to the age old question of the origin of man. book one took awhile for me to get interested. but worth it.