The Enigma Strain (Harvey Bennett #1)

by Nick Thacker

All men sought more than what God had initially blessed them with.

These types of campers were the worst kind. They left a mess, complained constantly, and ruined the sanctity of the ecosystem they'd stumbled into. People treated camping like a luxury all-inclusive resort vacation. As if nature was designed specifically to please them. Ben hated them,

He’d rather fail doing it the right way than succeed by not following the rules.”

“You mean the bomb released the virus?” “He was the closest person to the explosion that we’ve talked to, and he’s the first person who’s died from that virus thing that we know about.

This country isn’t united enough to save itself.”

“We’re looking at some sort of herpesvirus that contains a living, breathing, bacterial infection.”

Impossible or not, what they were looking at was a living bacteria fully functioning inside a virus.

“Please arrange for Roland’s delivery to our holdings in Antarctica. He will preempt our facilities there, but our stasis research has proven to be quite effective in long-term storage.”

even if there was a flight out to Billings

“It’s a mutated bacterial infection inside of a virus.”

“This country values freedom, but you and I both know that ‘freedom’ is a joke. We’re somewhere between a third-world country with a corrupt government and an overbearing corporation on the scale of how free we really are.