Cordyceps novus -- this is one nasty fungus! This thriller screams big screen to me and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Way back in Australia in 1987, government bioterrorism operatives for the DTRA, Roberto Diaz and Trini Romano, found something that could decimate the earth and destroy every living thing on it. A fungus, capable of adaptation unlike no other ever seen. Once contained and destroyed, they take a single sample back to the United States and store it in a secure storage facility far below the ground in the Atchison mines. It's safely away there until global warming effects changes that cause the fungus to grow -- but no one is the wiser because the owners of the storage facility have no idea it's there. Two security guards are at work manning the reception desk allowing locker renters access to their things one night when they hear a strange beeping noise. Teacake and Naomi, an ex-con and a single mother, decide to find out the cause and trace it to a vertical display panel that reads, "NTC Thermistor Breach" and see some strange green glowing things on the subfloor of SL-4 deep underground. They know this isn't good, but there is quite the night ahead of them. NO SPOILERS.
This was quite the fun and action-packed ride that I found impossible to put down. I really enjoyed the humor, reminded me of Carl Hiassen novels, and I just loved the characters -- it was easy to tell who the bad guys were and know they'd get their comeuppance. But the best "character' of all was the fungus! I can't avoid wanting to read books with a dastardly bug, a science angle, or a doom and gloom scenario. Pure entertainment and one I heartily recommend.
Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins Publishers for the e-book ARC to read and review.
This is a debut and a standalone so is not part of any series.
Genre -- sci-Fi thriller
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