Bøger udgivet af Mbd Publications

It happened gradually at first. That's how it always happens, these bad, awful things... It slips past you, unnoticed. You see it out of the corner of your eye. In the back of your mind, you wonder what it was. Before the front of your mind catches on, it's too late.The 5ifth Cycle is a gripping biotech/horror thriller about a virus out of control and unleashed upon a tiny, isolated town. When the virus escapes the confines of a remote bioengineering complex in Death Valley, the nearby town of Arroyo Caliente is quarantined with no warning, no explanation, and a rapidly-growing infected population. With their town shut down and completely cut off, it is up to a select handful to escape the quarantine and, like rats in an experiment, venture back through the maze and infiltrate the source in order to save themselves.The 5ifth Cycle is a complex, fast-moving story that flips the zombie plot on its ear by turning the improbable into the plausible. In the end, you're left with the uncomfortable feeling that it could happen.

In the year 2154, Henry VIII, dead for over five centuries, sits on a television stage in San Francisco talking about his life to Robert Delacroix, a real live interviewer. Henry is the first of several fascinating historical characters created from information fed to a mysterious machine called MONTY. Its ability to process the information is not fully understood by the inventors, but the result is an apparently real person who can talk, think, laugh, scream invective, and pound the walls of the cubicle enclosing it. At the end of each interview, the subject returns to MONTY as digital information, and Robert returns to the real world and his own struggles with life. Once a month, he mounts the stage for another interview. Then, suddenly, the world changes. The action moves from San Francisco to Asia, as the story veers in a different direction.