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They caught him. They infected him. Now they’re trying to frame him. Jason Trapp followed a dead informant's tip into the mountains of Tibet and walked straight into the jaws of an ambush. The last thing he remembers is the cold prick of a needle in his arm. He wakes with a bioweapon in his bloodstream, hunted by a rebel army and the mysterious Committee he’s been after for so long.

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the...

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just...

More people have died in disease epidemics than in wars or other disasters, but the process of identifying these diseases and determining how they spread is often a terrifying gamble. Epidemiologists have been ignored, mocked, or silenced all while trying to protect the population and identify “patient zero”—the first person to have contracted the disease, and a key piece in solving the epidemic puzzle. Patient Zero tracks the gripping tales of eight epidemics and pandemics—how they started, how they spread, and the fight to stop them.

Disease detectives put it all on the line ...to find Patient Zero. Through all the coughing, choking and misery of a killer virus on the loose, can public health officials defeat Chinese secrecy, U.S. drug company interests, and a criminal coverup to stop the disease in its tracks? Or will they be too late? Enjoy acclaimed thriller author Fritz Galt's close-up, clinical look at an unfolding disaster, with a Chinese city in crisis, relationships lost, international criminal justice in action, and a medical community’s desperate search for Patient Zero. “This novel sparkles.” – author...

In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak.

When people hear the word Quaker, their first association is often oats, motor oil, or the Amish—but oatmeal, automobile lubricant, and avoiding electricity have nothing to do with the Quakers' holistic mysticism. What is central to Quaker spirituality is the Divine Center, an inner sanctuary where the very Presence of God dwells. As Quaker theologian Rufus Jones wrote: “The kingdom of God is not a place where we go, but a state of being we can live in.” And we don’t need to take the journey by horse and buggy! Let Amos Smith open your heart and expand your mind. Quakerism holds ...

Eric didn't ask to be a vampire. In fact he didn't even believe in them. Biting your own tongue with your fangs does a lot of convincing. Even so, being a part-time undead isn't as easy as you might think. It can let you hold down a day job, true, but sometimes the night "life" can be more than a little difficult, what with those bloodthirsty urges and predatory instincts kicking in.

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the...

"The perfect binge listen." — Yahoo Lifestyle Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly...

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War is out now on Prime Video! Tom Clancy reveals Jack Ryan’s origins in this electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that pits the former Marine turned family man against a vicious group of international terrorists. As an American in London on...

Bodhi Patel is the brand new Lead Epidemiologist for the world's top epidemic specialists, Global Health Agency, but there's no time to settle in: his new boss, Helen Taylor, deploys GHA to contain a mysterious new killer virus spreading from Peru into Brazil. On the ground, they learn that the virus is loose in a region controlled by a heavily armed drug warlord, and the race against time to discover a cure just got a whole lot tougher. Meanwhile, Bodhi finds himself with a newly reshuffled team still smarting from the changes, including his ex.

Commander O’Shaserra, better known as Shadowsun, is an ice-cold military genius celebrated across the Chalnath Expanse. She is the master of the stealth battlesuit assault and the Kauyon metastrategy – a philosophy of war that emulates the Patient Hunter. But how to lay a trap for the Chaos-worshipping warriors of the Death Guard, whose ancient technology allows their fleet to rip holes in space? And how to deal with their daemonic patrons, who defy the laws of physics and shatter the logical methods that Shadowsun holds so dear?

Patient Zero A Thriller of Erased Memories What if your entire life was a lie... and the person who built it is the one you called "Mother"? Dr. Emma Carter spends her days unlocking her patients' buried traumas. But when a man's nightmare about a woman in a yellow dress triggers her own blackouts, the walls of her perfect world start crumbling. A hidden journal. A locked basement door. A child's handwriting she doesn't remember: Lily knows the secret. Forced back to the decaying house she fled years ago, Emma uncovers chilling evidence: photographs of children with empty eyes, tapes of ...

From a single exposed lab technician a mysterious virus begins to spread through the population, mutating those that are infected with it and altering them with new and powerful instincts to go with the bodies that they gained. A city soon finds themselves in the grips of a bizarre infection that turns its citizens into lustful anthro men, though as things spiral out of control it begins to mutate itself as much as the hosts that incubate it. Those tasked with trying to stop the spread of these creatures find themselves in the dark as they seem to have no idea where it came from or what it ...

Joe Ledger Fans Rejoice! Everyone’s favorite snarky, dangerous, idealistic, relentless covert operative is back, and this time he’s brought friends. Joe Ledger: Unstoppable presents original short stories about Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences by some of New York Times...

A Gripping Medical Thriller for English Learners (CEFR B1) "You are immune. You are the only person in the world who can survive this poison." Gemma wakes up in a sterile, windowless room with no memory of how she got there. The last thing she remembers is a strange, sweet fog at the Oxford train station—and the horrifying sight of people collapsing. Now, isolated and sedated by silent, terrifying figures in yellow hazmat suits, she realizes a chilling truth: this isn't a hospital. It's a high-security prison. When a sympathetic doctor finally reveals the devastating reality, Gemma's ...

When Milan Patel visits his parents at their family-run motel in Montana, he's expecting the usual drama. But shortly after he arrives, his father mysteriously dies in the motel pool. Now everyone's a suspect. What was meant to be a quick trip becomes Milan's worst nightmare, as he races to solve his father's murder while confronting the past he tried to leave behind.

The Zombie Outbreak Box Set (Books 1-3) is finally here! Three thrilling, intricately woven, character-driven stories that will leave you hungry for more! Start your journey off on an island full of mystery and dangerous secrets, and then board the world's largest cruise ship ever built, which promises fun and excitement with a tad of terror, to the cozy hometown where chaos and disaster threaten its entire existence. Valerie, Jack, Jeremy, and Ally, plus their family and friends, are geared to combat the insatiable infected. Who will survive, and who will make the ultimate sacrifice to ...

Fifteen-year-old Benny Imura lives in a world infested with zombies where, when a kid turns 15, he must get a job to continue receiving food rations. Benny has no interest in the family business of zombie killing, but figures he doesn’t have much of a choice. He’s tried out a bunch of other jobs, and hasn’t found anything he likes. But as Benny starts training with his brother, he learns things about being human that he never expected.