Seventh Extinction: The Genesis Project

by Eric Donaldson, Tim Harmon

Dr. Victor Kraus labored tirelessly as a wildlife ecologist, passionately striving to use science and reformed policies to curtail the human activities driving global warming and fueling the sixth mass extinction. When Victor realized that nothing would stop the number of species being lost to human greed and overconsumption, he resorted to using the only weapon left in his arsenal: the first mass human extinction. A highly lethal engineered virus was developed and disseminated around the world to reduce the human population to one billion people. As the viral apocalypse detonated across the globe, the virus destroyed billions of lives and delivered fear and chaos to every corner of the earth. With the pandemic running rampant, a Montana virologist working on a vaccine, recruited an unlikely group of friends to help him hunt down an increasingly brazen Victor, stop the virus, and save what is left of humankind.

324 pages, Paperback

Published January 18, 2017

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Beginning of a New Series

Seventh extinction is well written, interesting and believable plot, and characters you love, and those you want to strangle. It has a different approach than most on the end of the world, and that alone makes this book hard to put down. All to soon the end was in sight, and now I look forward to the next novel.

[Joann · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very interesting book to read during the Covid-19 sequestering. Some of the projections of a world epidemic like this were uncannily similar to what was happening, but in most ways, having a mad scientist starting an epidemic was weird. Very 'male' telling of constant 'heroic' efforts on the part of various characters to "do it alone." Excessively violent scenes, murders, one after the other. The poor writing in the first chapters reminded me that the book was a collaboration of two authors, probably self-published and without an editor's polish. Would that we had a government with some plans for a crisis such as this and the one in the novel, even an ineffectual one! Ended with a sequel in mind apparently.

[Michael Wells · Rating 4 out of 5]

The plot was good but too involved. There were too many characters and subplots. The ending leaves you hanging for a sequel but I couldn’t find one.,kind of disappointing