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When I received my weekly NYTimes.com newsletter this morning, I was thrilled to find an advertisement about a debut novel entitled Infected by Scott Sigler which can be downloaded for FREE and in full. Published by Random House, the book is scheduled to be launched on April 1. I think the horror/thriller novel has a good story. Here's the synopsis from Random House:
Across America, a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC Epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common — they've been contaminated by a bio-engineered parasite, shaped with a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.
Meanwhile Perry Dawsey — a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey — awakes one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices—he is infected.
The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must now wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
When I received my weekly NYTimes.com newsletter this morning, I was thrilled to find an advertisement about a debut novel entitled Infected by Scott Sigler which can be downloaded for FREE and in full. Published by Random House, the book is scheduled to be launched on April 1. I think the horror/thriller novel has a good story. Here's the synopsis from Random House:
Across America, a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC Epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common — they've been contaminated by a bio-engineered parasite, shaped with a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.
Meanwhile Perry Dawsey — a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey — awakes one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices—he is infected.
The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must now wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
I've just finished downloading the 352-page novel (RRP: US$24.95) and if you like what you read in the synopsis, why don't you give Scott Sigler a try? Better still, buy his book when it launches on April 1. By the way, I don't get anything out of this. I just love to spread good news and I hope this is good news to you (in the form of a free new novel). Happy reading!
thanks my friend
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You're most welcome, Jen! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Alice! I'll read more about the chapters (and/or download it) when I've the time. ;)
ReplyDeleteHope you've a great weekend.
Hi Melody, my pleasure. If you do download it later, please do so by Mar 31 and then maybe read it later if you're keen. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks again for the reminder, Alice! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome, Melody! :)
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks for posting this! I hope you enjoy INFECTED. And I hope your readers enjoy it as well. And the evil side of me hopes you read 20 pages, say "reading on a computer SUCKS!" and you run out and buy the hardcover. I'm evil, what can I say? Regardless, enjoy the read.
ReplyDeleteHello evil Scott, it's a pleasure posting this! Hah! You've just met a person who LOVES reading online and is actually pretty good at it. Nevertheless, I am deeply in love with paper and might just get the hardcover. Thanks! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAlice.. hi! How are you doing? Thanks for the heads up on Scott's book. What a great idea. I'm all for ebooks, but there's still something satisfying about holding a book in my hands, y'know.
ReplyDeleteHope you've been doing well.
Judy! Hi back! I hope you're doing well too. That's definitely true and no matter how good ebooks sound, they'll never replace good old paper. (I think that's why Scott was aiming at - get us enticed by the story and then go buy the hardback) :D
ReplyDeleteNice to see more people Infected :) Scott is a great writer and it is nice to see someone else discover him and help make his bid for world domination successful. By the way, you have a nice Blog alice, I have it bookmarked now. :)
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, tsolo888. I've bookmarked yours too. You've bought Scott's book, so that makes you an even more infected person. LOL.
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