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Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsThe fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel!A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed... -
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Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world’s most secure facility. Until now... -
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Unity by Adrienne Lecter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnited we stand, divided we fall Once again reunited, the Lucky Thirteen set out to hunt down their adversaries—only to be met with an entirely new set of unexpected obstacles. As much as Bree is burning to finally get her revenge, it soon becomes obvious that on their own they are no match for the forces opposing them... -
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Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed...Categorized as:
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![The Ranch by Sam Sisavath]()
The Ranch by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook #9 in The Road to Babylon post-apocalyptic series. _________________________________________ PROTECT THE HOMESTEAD, WHATEVER THE COSTS. Keo thought he’d killed it: a blue-eyed ghoul with a particularly sadistic streak unlike anything he has ever faced before...Categorized as:
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![Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness]()
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 59 ratingsAs a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches...Categorized as:
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Oblivion by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe final, thrilling conclusion to #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's masterful series!Matt. Pedro. Scott. Jamie. Scar. Five Gatekeepers have finally found one another. And only the five of them can fight the evil force that is on the rise, threatening the destruction of the world...Categorized as:
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Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future...Categorized as:
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![The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness]()
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsWe were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss...Categorized as:
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsConnor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end...Categorized as:
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![UnWholly by Neal Shusterman]()
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsAlternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIt’s finally here. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Unwind, which Publishers Weekly called a “gripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller.”Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding... -
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Horde by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the USA Today bestselling trilogy.The horde is coming.Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run...Categorized as:
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Wool by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 74 ratingsIn a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside...Categorized as:
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Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team...Categorized as:
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![The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin]()
The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsThe world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve... -
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UnSouled by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsTeens fight for their humanity in this thrilling third book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman.Connor and Lev are on the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL unwinds... -
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State of Vengeance by Summer Lane
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVengeance is coming. Monterey Bay, California, has barely survived a brutal attack from the evil invasion forces of Omega, and Cassidy Hart is exhausted. She has lost a friend and gained a new enemy. The militias seem to be weakening, and Omega seems to be getting stronger...Categorized as:
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Hollow by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPARADISE FOUND … AND LOST.Lara left it all behind. The battles, the blood, and the sacrifices. She’s settled in a small seaside village along the Texas-Mexico border under an assumed name, determined to live out the rest of her life in obscurity.She isn’t starting over alone. Keo is by her side. Together, they have made a good life for themselves. It’s an unexciting life. A quiet life... -
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Bombtrack by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBEHIND ENEMY LINES, BUT FAR FROM HELPLESS.Six years ago, Gaby was the most popular girl in high school. Then the world ended. Times have changed, and everyone's unanimous choice for homecoming queen is all grown up.These days she's part of something greater than herself: a group whose sole mission is to restore order to a ravaged world that badly needs them...Categorized as:
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Madness Rules by Arthur T. Bradley
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Survivalist (Madness Rules) is the fourth book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist Series. (Series Order: Frontier Justice, Anarchy Rising, Judgment Day, Madness Rules, Battle Lines - coming soon).Description: Few heroes remain in the apocalyptic wasteland of the United States. Deputy Marshal Mason Raines is one such hero...Categorized as:
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Battle Lines by Arthur T. Bradley
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBattle Lines is the fifth book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist series. It features six full-page illustrations. (Series Order: Frontier Justice, Anarchy Rising, Judgment Day, Madness Rules, Battle Lines, and Finest Hour).Description: Convinced that a militia leader holds the key to finally exacting justice, Deputy Marshal Mason Raines enters the destroyed city of Lexington...Categorized as:
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![Dream Sky by Brett Battles]()
Dream Sky by Brett Battles
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom thriller and suspense master Brett Battles comes Dream Sky, the sixth book in the continuing Project Eden thriller saga. A hush has settled over the planet. The once dominant human race is in full retreat. But man is not yet defeated. Augustine dream sky. These were Matt Hamilton’s last words. Daniel Ash has no idea what they mean, but he’s sure they are key to defeating Project Eden...Categorized as:
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![Overlord by David L. Golemon]()
Overlord by David L. Golemon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the stunning conclusion to the Matchstick Man saga that began with Event and continued with Legacy, the End of Days is upon humanity---invasion has arrived!Some speculate that the war between the two worlds began 700 million years ago, while others say it started in 1947 over a small town in New Mexico called Roswell... -
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Eden Rising by Brett Battles
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom thriller and suspense master Brett Battles comes Eden Rising, the fifth book in the continuing Project Eden saga.The Sage Flu pandemic is sweeping across the globe, killing almost everyone in its path. Those who have so far avoided its deathly grip struggle to remain among the living...Categorized as:
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Ebola K 3 by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEbola, Terrorism, and Hope The finale to the Ebola K trilogy Half the population has died. Many countries have disintegrated and societies have collapsed. Still, Ebola kills. Paul Cooper is imprisoned in an Ebola farm, a place where Ebola survivors are forced to donate antibody-rich plasma that will be used to treat the sick, but corruption is rampant and smugglers are everywhere...Categorized as:
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The Traveler by David L. Golemon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings267,000 BCE. The continent was its own world, untouched by the planet-wide catastrophe that ended the reign of the dinosaurs over sixty-five million years before. A traveler arrives in the jungles of this ancient world who will fight to survive carnivorous creatures in a land never meant for human kind... -
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The Distance by Jeremy Robinson, Hilaree Robinson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHEIR JOURNEY BEGINS...The human race has turned to dust. August Morrison faces it after rising from the depths of a dark matter research facility in Arizona. His co-workers. His daughter. All of them: dust. Friends and colleagues around the world don't answer their phones. The city of Phoenix burns. He is alone...Categorized as:
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Cured by Bethany Wiggins
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsNow that Fiona Tarsis and her twin brother, Jonah, are no longer beasts, they set out to find their mother, with the help of Bowen and a former neighbor, Jacqui. Heading for a safe settlement rumored to be in Wyoming, they plan to spread the cure along the way--until they are attacked by raiders...Categorized as:
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Finest Hour by Arthur T. Bradley
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFinest Hour is the sixth book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist series. It features seven full-page illustrations. (Series Order: Frontier Justice, Anarchy Rising, Judgment Day, Madness Rules, Battle Lines, Finest Hour, and Last Stand)...Categorized as:
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![Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler]()
Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSomething has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination—Moscow.In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev...Categorized as:
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![The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway]()
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out, but there's more to the fire, and the Pipe itself, than meets the eye. The job will take Gonzo and his best friend, our narrator, back to their own beginnings...Categorized as:
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Down by Brett Battles
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMatt Hamilton’s last words have led Daniel Ash and his team to the snow-covered town of Everton, Vermont. On a field just outside city limits sits an unassuming hut. But this is no innocent building. Inside is the entrance to the secret Project Eden base known as Dream Sky, the key to the Project’s success. Or its defeat, as Ash hopes...Categorized as:
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State of Destruction by Summer Lane
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Lane is surely worth picking up and reading, whoever you may be." - Daniel M. Harrison, #1 Bestselling Author of Butterflies and Editor of MarxRand The destruction of California is at hand. Cassidy Hart and Chris Young have survived a dangerous mission into the heart of Sky City, a secret Omega base hidden deep in the mountains, but their vengeance has come with a price...Categorized as:
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![The Break by Sam Sisavath]()
The Break by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIT BEGINS WITH A BREAK.Today is the biggest day of Cole Ristler’s life. He’s about to join his wife and unborn child in retirement, an event he didn’t think would ever happen. It’s a cause for celebration, and all that’s left is the ride home.Unfortunately for Cole, the world has other plans... -
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Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt, David W. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe #1 bestselling horror sci-fi series with over 1,000 5-star reviews concludes here with Yesterday’s Gone: Season Six. The wait is over. On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors woke to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors. Now they are home. But they're not alone. The Darkness has killed nearly everyone on the planet... -
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Callsign: Deep Blue (Tom Duncan) by Jeremy Robinson, Kane Gilmour
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTom Duncan—Callsign: Deep Blue, former Army ranger, former president of the United States and handler of the black ops force known as Chess Team, is visiting the team’s new secret headquarters. The underground facility, known as Alpha, once belonged to Manifold Genetics, a corrupt corporation shut down by Chess Team. But despite being abandoned for years, Alpha still hides secrets... -
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Cannibal by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStill recovering from the tragic loss of a good friend, Jack Sigler, callsign: King, leads the Chess Team—a crew of former Delta operators—back into action. But what should be a routine snatch-and-grab to capture a drug cartel leader, escalates out of control, throwing the team into a challenge unlike anything they’ve ever faced... -
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Callsign: Queen by Jeremy Robinson, David Wood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt the beginning of her search for Rook, a missing Chess Team member, Zelda Baker, Callsign: Queen, is redirected to Pripyat, Ukraine, a ghost town on the radioactive outskirts of Chernobyl. Intel indicates that splinter cell of Manifold Genetics—a ruthless corporation dismantled by Chess Team—may be operating in the area... -
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Callsign: King II - Underworld by Jeremy Robinson, Sean Ellis
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStrange things have always happened in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona… Bizarre lights, reports of cave entrances that appear and then vanish, hundreds of mysterious disappearances…and rumors of monstrous creatures that inhabit a labyrinthine underworld... -
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Callsign: Rook - Book 1 by Jeremy Robinson, Edward G. Talbot
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a failed mission claims the lives of his five-man support team, Stan Tremblay, Callsign: Rook, flees Siberia and finds himself on the secluded coast of Norway, north of the Arctic Circle. Exhausted, cut off from the outside world, and emotionally beaten from his defeat in Russia, Rook just wants to find a place to rest. The small coastal town of Fenris Kystby seems like the perfect place... -
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Ashes by Brett Battles, MacLeod Andrews
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom thriller and suspense master Brett Battles comes Ashes, the fourth book in the continuing Project Eden thriller saga.The hammer has fallen. The deadly Sage Flu has been unleashed. The scramble for survival is in full force.Martina Gable and her family escaped to a secluded mountain cabin in hopes of avoiding the death sweeping the desert valley below...Categorized as:
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Day of Wrath by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis novella by New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen imagines a horrifying scenario where, in the course of one day, the terrorist group ISIS carries out massacres in schools and on highways across the United States. With a surprisingly small but well-organized and ruthless force, the nightmarish devastation brings America to a state of near-paralysis... -
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The Hunted by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe deadly hunt continues in book two of the bestselling Trackers saga...Five days ago North Korea detonated three nuclear warheads over the United States, triggering an electromagnetic pulse that crippled the country. A second attack destroyed the nerve center of America in a nuclear blast that flattened the nation's capitol... -
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Alone by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom... -
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The Threat Below by Jason Latshaw
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Heart-Pounding Dystopian YA Thrill-Ride Three hundred years ago, something arose and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Now, a small remnant – the descendants of the few survivors who were able to escape the massacre below – lives above the clouds, on the top of a mountain. But there's been a change. Their water supply is being poisoned...Categorized as:
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![Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts]()
Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this apocalyptic sequel to Dark Inside four teens continue the struggle for survival as they face a world gone mad.Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population, and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers...Categorized as:
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Fragments by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAuthor Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a "thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet... -
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I Am the Mission by Allen Zadoff
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHe was the perfect assassin. No name. No past. No remorse. Perfect, that is, until he began to ask questions and challenge his orders. Now The Program is worried that their valuable soldier has become a liability. And so Boy Nobody is given a new mission. A test of sorts. A chance to prove his loyalty... -
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Threshold by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAfter a terrorist attack on a reservation in Oregon leaves thousands dead, Jack Sigler, call sign King and his Chess Team — Queen, Rook, Bishop and Knight — must protect the only survivor, thirteen year-old Fiona Lane. When a death in the family pulls King away, and the rest of the team is sent on a mission, Fort Bragg is attacked by a strange and overwhelming force... -
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Instinct by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and contagious strain of the disease, the Chess Team are assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new strain...
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