Viral
A Novel
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4.0 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Two brothers race to stop a massive bioterrorist plot in this “world-class thriller” (Vince Flynn, New York Times–bestselling author of American Assassin).
In remote pockets of the Third World, a deadly virus is quietly sweeping through impoverished farming villages and shantytowns with frightening speed and potency. Meanwhile, in Washington, a three-word message left in a safe-deposit box may be the key to stopping the crisis—if, that is, Charles Mallory, a private intelligence contractor and former CIA operative, can decipher the puzzle before time runs out.
Mallory begins to discover the traces of a secret war with a bold objective—to create a new, technologically advanced society. With the help of his brother Jon, an investigative reporter, he needs to outwit a new kind of superpower and break the story to the world before it’s too late—and a planned “humane depopulation” takes place . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two brothers try to stop a grand-scale plot to remake the Third World, in Lilliefors's fast-paced debut thriller. Ex-CIA agent Charles Mallory, now a private intelligence contractor, has been working on a project that inexplicably links the influx of billions of dollars into remote areas of Africa for supposedly humanitarian projects with a deadly virus that's quietly wiping out entire populations of impoverished villages in a single day. When Charles sends his investigative journalist brother, Jon, overseas to witness and report the atrocities, he inadvertently places Jon at the center of a looming disaster that, if successfully unleashed, could irrevocably change the global balance of power. While the impressively intricate plot and nonstop action all but overwhelm the main characters, fans of intelligently written page-turners will be rewarded. Lilliefors is also the author of the mystery Bananaville and two historical studies, America's Boardwalks and Highway 50.
