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    <body><![CDATA[Germ far outdid my expectations. I was expecting a decent read with less-then-adequate dialogue, stereotypical characters, and the like. Instead, I stumbled upon a book (it was a Christmas present) that was one the best thrillers I have ever read. I greatly admired the author's lack of hesitation in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40964184">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine an airborne strain of the Ebola virus that targets only the people who has the DNA strands encoded within it. No one is safe, and if you breathe, it will find you. To prove it, the germ's creator targets ten thousand victims: politicians, housewives, children. Only three people can possibly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43293567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the writing style and the characters, but there is some really gory stuff in this book.  In the first chapter, the author vividly describes people dying of a modified form of Ebola.  The modified virus idea was great (not as good as the one in Dekker's circle trilogy, but then what is?) but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54792000">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pulled into this book by the premise of a bio hazzard storyline. I was horribly disappointed. I found the writing to be distracting in that I would come across phrases which I flet should have been edited out for poor writing. Also the short choppy chapters made it hard to read for any length ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30796758">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good thriller about a CDC agent who happens upon a plot to destroy the world using a manmade Ebola Virus. It was a very exciting book, full of really quirky twists and turns and a really tricky ending.  Very enjoyable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was bought for me as a gift, on the premise that it was about an engineered strain of ebola...this book was *actually* about an action packed hollywood movie type chase - don't let the summary fool you!  As the reviews on the book jacket state, this book is &quot;literate&quot; (as in some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73772438">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written.  The action NEVER STOPS.  The plot is unbelievably good, and you will never ever be able to put it down till the end.  READ IT.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This guy is a great-great horror/terror/spine-chilling, chair gripping soul-stirring, story teller! Ya gotta read his stuff!  :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Favorite book ever!!! Loved the big-ness of the story and how close we get to the characters. This is a winner for Hollywood!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The list of 10,000 names was created for maximum devastation. On it are business leaders, housewives, politicians, celebrities, janitors, children. None of them knows what is about to happen-but all will be part of the most frightening brand of warfare the world has ever known.<br/><br/>The germ-a more advanced form of the Ebola virus-has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded within it. If your DNA is not a match, you simply catch a cold. But if your DNA is a match, within days your internal organs liquefy and you die a most painful death. There is no cure. If you breathe, it will find you.<br/><br/>The release of the virus would usher in a new era of power-one in which countries are left without any form of defense, where one person or millions could be killed with 100% accuracy yet result in no collateral damage to property or those not targeted.<br/><br/>That time isn't coming. It is now.<br/><br/>Germ is coming. Pray the assassins get you first.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like a thriller, you need to read this book. Its a long book, but I can't put it down!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[His books are very interesting, a bit graphic...definitely a man's book and full of action.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book i have read from this author and it was great! what a unique plot.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Man-made Ebola, engineered to target specific DNA.  FBI, and CDC come to play important parts.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting thriller.  Did not like the liberty which he took with the assassins.]]></body>
    
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