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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Three Rivers Press | | Edition: | Reprintth Edition | | Page Count: | 400 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 14, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 26,242th |
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Product Description
A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page. A mysterious disease is turning thousands of ordinary Americans into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, their own families, and even themselves. And one morning, ex–football star Perry Dawsey awakens to find mysterious welts growing all over his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices, fighting uncontrollable rage . . . he is infected. Worse, the disease wants something from him, something that could alter the fate of the human race. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 277 reviews)
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Better finish by William B. Bebout (Morganfield, Ky United States)  4 Stars
November 30, 2009
I really enjoyed this book and was all set to give it 5 stars right up till the end. It was exciting, well, written and fast paced.....right up till the end. Then it seemed like Mr. Sigler said, " I've got to finish this someway...or maybe not. Why don't I come up with some quick lame ending that will leave it open for sequels?" That is what it felt like to me. I still think it is a good read and would highly recommend it.
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WOW! by Figment (Berea, Ohio United States)  5 Stars
November 29, 2009
I read this in one sitting. Amazing book that grabs you from the first page. I highly recommend it.
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Powerful storytelling by Ivy Reisner (Brooklyn, NY USA) 5 Stars
November 19, 2009
Where to start with this book. Scott Sigler was one of the pioneering voices in podiobooks, and this was one of the first great works in that form.
I wouldn't say this story is scary so much as it is gripping and exciting. I hate horror. I couldn't sit through The Exorcist. This wasn't that kind of scary.
Random, otherwise normal, healthy people, have flown into bursts of violence, killing those closest to them before killing themselves. There isn't much linking them except weird, triangular growths, a sudden onset of paranoid psychosis, and that the corpse decomposes to goo in a matter of days.
Dew Phillips, CIA Agent, leads a team to capture a live victim for study.
Former football star Perry Dawson has found the strange growths, and he is one victim utterly unwilling to lie down and play victim.
They are both determined to understand and destroy the triangles, and both tragically pitted against each other. When they come to a head, you'll find yourself rooting in turn for one and then the other.
I will say this book would have benefited from an editor's hand. It lacks a little polish. First we see the term "CDC" many times, which is fine, everyone knows what it means, than we get a definition. The Latin is off. "E unum pluribus" still means "From many, one" but with a stronger focus on the "one" than the "many". From one, many" would be "E pluribum unus", which might have given more of the slightly off feel he was going for. Little things like that. If foul language offends you, you don't want to read this book.
Altogether, this is a must read for sci-fi and horror fans alike.
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I feel like I am missing something by Christian D. Sorrell  2 Stars
November 13, 2009
This book is poorly written and endlessly cliche. Despite all of the good reviews here, I did not find anything here scary or inventive in terms of science fiction. It feels like a freshman writing majors first attempt at a novel and that being said, its not all bad but very little is good.
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Top Notch Alien Invasion Story by lesley9 (California, CA. USA) 5 Stars
November 02, 2009
Sci/Fi - Horror is not a genre I usually want to read. But Scott Sigler is the real deal. Read Infected and immediately read the sequel, Contagious, and you will be well rewarded for the time spent. The ending of Infected flows right into the beginning of Contagious.
If you just read Contagious you are missing all the backstory. The experience is attenuated greatly.
I thought after reading Infected that there was nowhere to take the story but I was very wrong. It only deepens in Contagious.
Sigler is a wonderfully creative writer. If you want a Stephen King experience but with a little Jalapeno Pepper, try Sigler.
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