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Chimera

Book 3 of Parasitology

Mira Grant author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:26th Nov '15

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The final book in Mira Grant's terrifying Parasitology trilogy. The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera. The broken doors are closing. Can Sal make it home? Parasitology Parasite Symbiont Chimera For more from Mira Grant, check out: Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout Newsflesh Short Fiction Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box Countdown San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

An incredible, disturbingly plausible tale of what happens to a world where medical treatments have minds of their own i09.com on PARASITE Parasite is believable, disturbing and only the beginning ... The distrubingly realistic plot, coupled with interspersed events of hostility from the infected, make for a suspense ridden read SciFiNow on PARASITE A creepy spine-tingler of a medical thriller Charles Stross on PARASITE The most readable, wittily written - and even charming zombie thriller in years MORNING STAR on PARASITE A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton John Joseph Adams on PARASITE Parasite is a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare SUNDAY SPORT on PARASITE So tense that I sometimes forgot to breathe THE NOCTURNAL LIBRARY on PARAISTE Readers who enjoy Michael Crichton's scientific thrillers ... will be equally pleased with this series BOOKLIST on CHIMERA

ISBN: 9780356507057

Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 31mm

Weight: 350g

496 pages