In 1987, two
Pentagon operatives who specialize in neutralizing bioterrorism threats are
sent to Australia with a bio-scientist.
Their mission is to investigate and neutralize a highly mutative
organism capable of wiping out all life on the planet. After one of the team dies freakishly, the
sample they retrieve is buried deep in a little-used military base used for
long-term storage in Atchison, KS.
Fast forward 32 years – Teacake and Naomi are two twenty-something security guards at the Atchison Storage Facility in Atchison, KS. Teacake is an ex-con, Naomi is a single mom saving to go to veterinary college. The storage facility is the same former military base where the government stashed things best forgotten, now converted to individual storage units for public use. When the fungi escapes its containment unit, Roberto Diaz, one of the original operatives (now retired) is called out of retirement to stop the virus a second time.
Entertaining read with hints of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain. It gets a little confusing in the last 60 or so pages with the variety of characters coming together. There are some pretty gross parts so it’s not a book to read on your lunch hour.
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