Title: First
Wave
Series: Travis
Combs Thrillers, Volume
1
Author: JT
Sawyer (@AuthorJTSawyer)
Genre:
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, zombies
Publisher:
JT Sawyer
ASIN: B00IHQAYYQ
Number of pages: 192
Word Count: 57666
Cover Artist: Melody Simmons
Book
Description
Special
Forces veteran Travis Combs just wanted to forget his weary years of
leading combat missions while taking an extended rafting trip through
the Grand Canyon.
As
he and his group complete a 22-day trip on the Colorado River, they
find the world has unraveled from a deadly pandemic.
Now,
he has to show his small band how to live off the land and cross the
rugged Arizona desert, while evading blood-drinking zombies, gangs of
cartel bikers, and a rogue government agency.
Excerpt
Prologue
August 26, Ten Days before the Pandemic
Doctor Robert James Pearson lowered the silver-rimmed glasses on his nose as he gazed at the clear vial before him. His technicians in the research lab next to his office had gone home for the day. The only noise came from the hallway outside, where he could hear the comforting footfalls of security personnel doing their evening sweeps in the high-security facility on the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He stroked his thin gray goatee while marveling at the precious substance in the vial.
After thirty-eight months of toil in his lab, his research for the Department of Biodefense was complete. The viral load he and the other scientists had perfected in the modified avian flu strain had passed the initial series of animal testing and the antidote was ready to use, if necessary. They had painstakingly taken the original 1918 virus and magnified its replication capabilities. This super virus dramatically increases the onset of necrotizing bronchiolitis while instigating diffuse alveolar damage. The subject will typically perish from internal hemorrhaging within twenty-four hours of exposure, he had proudly stated in a recent briefing to his funders.
The Biodefense officials had assured him that his research in neurophysiology and virology was critical to arriving at an antidote before terrorists could complete their own strain of the new virus. Now, over three years later, he could wrap up this voluminous project and resume his work at Stanford. Pearson was part of a six-man group of researchers who conferred through daily video conferences, comparing research data. They were the brilliant minds behind the resulting antidote that could potentially save millions of lives.
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About
the Author
JT
Sawyer is the pen name for the author who makes his living teaching
survival courses for the military special operations community,
Department of Homeland Security, US Marshals, FAA, and other federal
agencies throughout the US.
He
has over 25 years of experience testing long-term survival skills in
the desert, mountains, and forest.
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