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Infected

A Novel

  • 2008 first published
  • 384 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (8 ratings)
  • 5 editions

Infected is a 2008 horror novel by Scott Sigler. Readers will find themes of neurobehavioral disorders, parasites and murderers.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 15 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 5 editions.

It runs to roughly 384 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Infected

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 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. Infected is the first major print release from Internet phenom Scott Sigler, whose podcast-only audiobooks have drawn an immense cult following, with more than three million individual episodes downloaded.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Neurobehavioral disorders
  • Horror
  • Parasites
  • Thriller
  • Murderers
  • Science fiction

Quick answers

Who wrote Infected?

Infected was written by Scott Sigler and first published in 2008.

What genre is Infected?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is Infected?

The median edition has 384 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Infected?

Readers who like it often enjoy Haunting Adeline, The Green Mile and Rose Madder.

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