The Pox (Paperback)

Paperback. The Pox (Third Edition) is a tense, character-driven outbreak horror thriller set on the Oregon coast, where a small, easily dismissed symptom becomes a personal catastrophe-and then a public nightmare. ER doctor Jack Spellman is used to blood, grief, and the relentless grind of emergency medicine, but when a strange, pox-like condition ignites in his own body, the rules of medicine stop applying. The sickness moves too fast, leaves evidence that shouldn't exist, and spreads in ways no hospital protocol can contain.As people around Jack begin to sicken and die, he's forced into an uneasy alliance with Penny-sharp, wary, and determined to survive at any cost. Their escape from the first wave of infection leads them to something worse than contagion: a hidden, fortified facility and a covert program built to control information, bodies, and "assets." What they uncover is bigger than an outbreak-it's a system.With proof in hand and enemies in pursuit, Jack and Penny must decide how far they're willing to go, and what truth is worth, when the institution designed to bury it is still watching. A strange infection turns an ER doctor into Patient Zero on the Oregon coast. Hunted by a covert program, Jack and Penny fight to survive-and expose the truth-before the pox spreads beyond anything they can contain. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…