Sick (Project Eden #1) by Brett Battles

Not sure how I stumbled across Brett Battles, but I read his first book and really enjoyed it (I reviewed it here). Looking for something to read in my electronic TBR pile (more about that here), I decided to give Sick a ride. Sick is the first book in the Project Eden series (of which there are three to date).

Here's an abbreviated blurb:
Daniel Ash wakes to the cry of his daughter. Stepping through her doorway, he expects to find her frightened by a nightmare. 

But the nightmare is his. It's real. And it's just beginning... 

Something is burning Ash's daughter alive. Something horrible that is spreading beyond the walls of their home, and taking no prisoners. 

A team of armed men in biohazard suits bursts into his house. But these aren't the good guys. 
They haven't come to save Ash's family. They've come to finish what they started. 

The problem is Ash refuses to disappear. He wants only one thing: to find those responsible. 

Because humanity is on the brink of execution. And man is pulling the trigger.


This is the kind of thriller I've been looking for. Not terribly long, great writing and characters, well constructed plot and short on flowery descriptions.

I only give 5-stars to books I would read again, and I won't read this again, mainly because I generally don't read books twice. But I'll probably read everything else this guy writes, and soon, starting with the second book in the series, Exit 9. How's that for an endorsement, Bretito? Fo' stars.

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