Infected

A Novel Infected, #1

by Scott Sigler

Hardcover, 352 pages

English language

Published March 31, 2008 by Crown.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-40610-1

(22 reviews)

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.

Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.

The fate of the human race may …

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.

5 editions

fiainros reviewed Infected by Scott Sigler (Infected, #1)

Review of 'Infected' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I got to the third page of the first chapter before I decided this isn't the book for me. For a book that had been in my wishlist since Siglers podcast that I probably should have just subscribed and listened to all those years ago, that's a sad result. This book had been recommended to me because of the podcast aspect (I was an early listener of podcasts due to a long commute) and because my science-related friends all thought the science was done well. I have connections that know the author and by all accounts he's a good guy.

So why did I drop the book so fast? I encountered language that bothers me. Willing to let it pass because it was being used to show the misogyny of the character, within another page I came across an ableist word that has not been okay to use ever, but …

coffeemonk reviewed Infected by Scott Sigler (Infected, #1)

Review of 'Infected' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Good, but not great. Entertaining, but predictable and cliche ridden. Vulgar and crass, in a somewhat amateurish way. Some characters made leaps of logic or understanding of which they shouldn't have been capable. Again, it was entertaining, and I did generally enjoy it, but I don't feel compelled to pick up the next book in the series.