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- Title
- Mayer, B: Z
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- Taschenbuch
- ISBN 10
- 1621253015
- ISBN 13
- 9781621253013
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ANGOLA. A RUSSIAN SATELLITE CRASHES IN THE JUNGLE CARRYING SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED. WITHIN DAYS, AN ENTIRE VILLAGE IS DEAD.
Former Green Beret Dave Riley is in Angola as security for reporter Conner Young, covering a UN peacekeeping mission. It's supposed to be routine—embedded with an elite Special Forces team, documenting the 82nd Airborne's deployment to stabilize a civil war. But when their helicopter picks up a dying Angolan sergeant who literally dissolves from the inside out, vomiting blood and tissue, everything changes.
The sergeant came from a village where everyone died screaming. Bodies burned in piles. Pregnant women bleeding from every opening. Survivors with welts covering their skin, begging for death. This isn't Ebola. It's not Marburg. It's something new—a hemorrhagic virus so lethal it kills in days instead of weeks, liquefying organs and turning victims into bags of blood and dissolved flesh.
At Fort Detrick's bio-weapons lab, virologist Michael Kieling recognizes what he's seeing: a cousin to Ebola, but faster, deadlier, and with no cure. Patient Zero was in that village. And the only thing that could have brought it there was the Russian satellite that crashed three weeks earlier—a Proton booster that was supposed to be empty space junk but came down far too fast, far too deliberately, in exactly the wrong place.
Someone launched a bioweapon into space. Someone else brought it down in the heart of Africa. Now it's loose in a war zone where hundreds of American soldiers are landing, where refugee movements could spread it across borders, where the infrastructure to contain an outbreak doesn't exist.
Riley and the Special Forces team must race to find the crash site before the virus spreads beyond control. But they're not alone in the jungle. Mercenaries are hunting the same target. Someone wants that satellite—or wants to make sure no one ever finds it. And as Riley's team ventures deeper into rebel territory, members start showing symptoms. Bleeding from the eyes. Welts appearing on skin. The clock is ticking down to complete organ failure.
With no vaccine, no treatment, and no way to stop the spread, Riley faces an impossible choice: contain the outbreak by any means necessary—even if it means sacrificing everyone infected, including his own team—or let the virus escape Angola and trigger a global pandemic.
Z: FINAL COUNTDOWN is a terrifying bio-thriller from Bob Mayer that combines military action with pandemic horror. Perfect for fans of Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers, and high-stakes military fiction where the enemy is invisible, unstoppable, and already inside the wire.
Bookpage: “Take an original look at a simmering world hot spot, and generates a lot of suspense along the way. A winner on all points.”
Library Journal: “A heart-pounding thriller about the emergence of a deadly ebola-like virus. The panorama of modern warfare and the details of hand-to-hand combat encounters add excitement. Inventive, entertaining, and realistic adventure. Highly recommended.”
Kirkus: “A ripping good biotech/military thriller that plausibly depicts the high costs of combating unseen enemies. An absorbing and well-written series.
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