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V.X-9
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Series: Viral Xenogenesis-9, Book 1
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Publisher: Redline Ink Publishing
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Aubrey Collins was twenty-eight years old and she had been sheriff of Harlan County for fourteen months, which was long enough to know how the machinery worked and short enough that some people were still surprised when she walked into a room.
When Sheriff Aubrey Collins responds to a 4:17 AM welfare check at the Miller Farm, she walks into something that defies every protocol she knows. The family has descended into inexplicable, violent psychosis-pupils blown wide, veins darkened with strange bruising, strength that shouldn't be physically possible. The official report calls it a mental health crisis. The county officials want it buried.
But Aubrey has seen something that can't be un-seen. And she's not the only one.
Dylan Parker came home to Harlan County with discharge papers in his pocket and four years of nightmares he can't discuss. A veteran of a classified deployment where he witnessed the impossible, he recognizes the Millers' symptoms immediately. They match something he was told was isolated and resolved-something he knows was neither.
When the sole surviving patient escapes from a locked hospital room, leaving her restraints intact and score marks on a third-floor windowsill, Aubrey and Dylan form an uneasy alliance. He knows what they're facing. She knows how to fight it. Neither trusts the federal team that arrives with false credentials and a cover story that changes with every question.
Together, they uncover VX-9-a classified biological weapons program that has been running on domestic civilian populations since 2009. The Millers weren't victims of a random outbreak. They were test subjects in an unauthorized military experiment. And they aren't the only ones.
With a federal quarantine sealing the county, a private military contractor burning evidence, and the infection spreading through the water supply toward three states, Aubrey and Dylan race to expose the truth before the program's architects can bury it forever. Their only weapons: a waterproof archive compiled by a man trapped in a subterranean cell, a Cold War broadcast station with a forty-mile range, and each other.
What reviewers are saying about V.X-9:
A relentless thriller that never sacrifices character for pace. Collins and Parker are the kind of heroes who earn every victory.
Tension on every page, but the beating heart of this novel is the partnership-and the promise-between two people who refuse to look away.
Fans of The Hot Zone and True Detective will find themselves at home in Harlan County, where the scariest monsters aren't supernatural-they're the ones with government credentials.
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