Bio-terrorism. The very word should make your skin crawl. Right now you could be breathing in odorless, tasteless - and deadly - germs. Germs that could take your internal organs and make them ooze from your eye sockets. First it would start as a rash, you might even think it's a mosquito bite (are you scratching yet?), but you would definitely realize that your body was turning to mush long before you died...much too long. And what if those germs could be directed? Bio-terrorism is so messy. What if you could ensure that you would ONLY kill your enemies? This is the situation that Robert Liparulo brings to life in his page-turning thriller Germ.
Julia Matheson is an agent in the Law Enforcement Division for the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases. And right now she's tracking down a lead. A guy who says he has information on a bio-terrorism operation. But certain people will go to any lengths to keep that information secret. They really don't wanting this traitor from among their own ranks spilling his guts...well, figuratively speaking anyway.
In her journey to unwind the mystery, she teams up with Dr. Allen Parker and his pastor brother Stephen. Together they must stop a man named Karl Litt, the mastermind behind the attacks. Ten thousand lives depend on them. Standing in their way is the legendary and thought to be mythical arch-assassin known as Atropos. Legend says he's never failed and he has them at the top of his list.
Liparulo has something special with Germ. It is by far my favorite (thus far) of his novels. It explores the descent of one man into darkness, forever changed and obsessed by a disease that corroded more than his body. Germ will cause your pulse to race, your skin to perspire, and your eyes to twitch. You might even think you're coming down with something. But don't fear. Those are all symptoms of reading a top-notch thriller. And you know the antidote. Just turn the page.
2 comments:
This sounds interesting (albeit a little scary, too). (: I'll have to check this out. (:
It is very good. I am reading it for the second time. I first read it in paperback form months back and truthfully, it did not grab me very much. But then I read Roberts other books, and I got Germ in hardcover. Definately a good choice reading it again. This not only can happen, and probably did, but it will again. Beware your next breath. Pat Russell
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