Bioterror - Tim Curran - Bog

SIX YEARS AGO - NKUDBKAH, IRAQA small Republican Guard mechanized infantry unit and the isolated village near it is chosen by the CIA for a dreadful purpose: to test the potential of Project BioGenesis-a genetically modified organism designed to be a viable method of biological warfare. It was an unmitigated failure. When the team sent in for reconnaissance is attacked and eventually infected by the weaponized parasites, only one plan exists for such a result-utter annihilation of all infected organisms under a blanket of napalm and phosphorus, burning it with a cleansing fire...or so they thought.NOW - CHICAGO, ILLINOISDown on her luck, unemployed journalist Shawna Geddes witnesses the abduction of a homeless man by several figures in a white van. Instinctually, she follows and stumbles into one of the most horrific secrets in the history of the planet. Joined by her unscrupulous colleague Harry Niles, they find a string of deaths around Chicago all connected by one wriggling, mucus-covered tendril-an infestation spreading across the planet like wildfire-and they are thoroughly tangled in its coils. Unless something is done soon, it will be much too late to stop the horror of this vermicular monstrosity. Soon, all will fall under the swarming mass of...>