The Gemini VirusWil Mara
Forge Books, October 2012
ISBN: 978-0765324313
The world is running out of time.
Four days after Bob Easton starts running a temperature, he dies from the mysterious illness; suffering from large pustules on his entire body and total delirium. Shortly thereafter, the people who came in contact with him also become violently ill and die. No one, including the CDC, knows what this fast-moving virus is, but it resembles two strains of smallpox which causes speculation that a terrorist group is behind it.
Dennis and Andi Jensen, an ordinary family in New Jersey, watch news of the outbreak with alarm, especially as cases show up in their small town and move closer and closer to their own neighborhood. Finally, after an act of violence on their property, they pack up and flee with their two small children and the beloved family dog to an isolated mountain cabin. They are almost turned back by emergency officials, but make it, only to find that their nightmare is not over.
Wil Mara's The Gemini Virus is a disturbingly plausible account of the outbreak and spread of a horrific new lethal disease in the United States. The story is told from several points of view. Mara portrays the victims going about their everyday lives and catching this new plague in so doing. Readers ride along with CDC epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Beck, and his protegée Cara Porter, as they rush to the epicenter of the initial outbreak. There Michael analyses patterns, in order to track down the source of the disease, while Cara works with a research team in search of an antiviral.
WIL MARA is the award-winning novelist of the 2005 disaster thriller Wave, as well as many other titles for variety of audiences. The Gemini Virus is the second book in the disaster series, with several more stories currently in development.
ISBN: 978-0765324313; ISBN10: 0765324318; Imprint: Forge Books; On Sale: 10/2/2012; Format: Hardcover; Pages: 304; $24.99
