13 Days to Die
A Novel
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4.3 • 7 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
#1 AMAZON BESTSELLING MEDICAL THRILLER
Red Sparrow meets Inferno in Matt Miksa's debut which electrifies a Cold War spirit with fresh, modern-day expertise as our heroes wrestle society's darkest nightmares.
In a far-flung Tibetan village, prayer flags flap against whitewashed houses and a majestic monastery stretches to heaven. It's Shangri-La--the earthly paradise--until a stranger staggers out of the forest and collapses into a bloody, lifeless mass. He's the first victim of a crippling epidemic, but he's no ordinary man.
Olen Grave, an American intelligence officer, heads directly into the hot zone to investigate. Posing as a journalist, he joins the Chinese research team, led by a headstrong female virus hunter, Dr. Zhou Weilin. Together, the unlikely allies discover that Patient Zero was a spy who deliberately infected himself. But why? Who did he work for?
As Olen and Dr. Zhou rush to uncover the shocking truth behind the epidemic, they unravel a twisted conspiracy that reaches from Beijing's great halls to Washington's corridors of power. With the superpowers now at the brink of war, the fate of the world will rest on the duo's shoulders.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Former FBI intelligence analyst Miksa's energetic debut opens with a pair of teasing, overheated scenes: a delirious man stumbles into a teahouse in a Tibetan village, vomits blood into his cup of tea, and dies; a week later in Vienna, an American businessman called Big Tex pays an Austrian geneticist for the formula for a virulent avian influenza. The real action gets underway in Beijing, where virologist Zhou "Jo" Weilin explains in a briefing to China's Politburo Standing Committee that a foreigner has been identified as Patient Zero in a deadly viral outbreak in Tibet. He's believed to be a Taiwanese spy on a mission to use a bioweapon to undermine the rulers of Mainland China. Big Tex, who's in fact Olen Grave, an intelligence officer in a Pentagon agency that specializes in protecting America from biological agents, is given a cover as a journalist and sent to accompany Jo to Tibet. Olen and Jo must do what they can to prevent a world war. The twisty, complex plot makes up for purple prose that sometimes slows things down. This timely thriller is worth checking out.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic page turner!
Great read! I can only hope the ending sets us up for a sequel novel soon!