The Infected Trilogy

By Scott SiglerFiction Science Fiction

The Infected Trilogy episodes

February 01, 2023 ANCESTOR Episode 1
Welcome to the mind of brilliant Chinese geneticist Liu Jian Dan. It's a bit disturbing here.
Written and performed by Scott Sigler
Production Assistance by Allie Press
Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment
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ANCESTOR Intro
ANCESTOR Outro
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8 min
January 31, 2023 ANCESTOR Trailer
"The ancestors are out there… you have to believe me."
Acclaimed author Scott Sigler, the New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious, offers a chilling tale of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.
Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a compatible heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee … and imagine what a company would do to monopolize that technology.
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering thousands of animal genomes, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock and re-created the progenitor of all mammals. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection.
There's just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, the work has given birth to something big, something evil … something very, very hungry.
As creators become prey in an ultimate battle for survival, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research reveals its own cold-blooded agenda.
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3 min
January 25, 2023 The Trilogy is over! What now?
Welp, you did it. You listened to all eighty-eight episodes of my Infected Trilogy. That's a lot of carnage, my friend. A lot of carnage.
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You spent eighty-eight gloriously gory and gripping episodes with me, and for that, I say "thank you." Time is the currency of life, and the minutes you spend with me are minutes you'll never get back. I am grateful for your time, and I hope I brought joy to your life.
You keep listening; I'll keep writing.

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2 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #40 - Series Finale
Fire Engine 98 has picked up the survivors of the Chicago Cataclysm and is rumbling toward the extraction point. Helicopters are on the way to rescue Dr. Feely, Clarence Otto, Cooper Mitchell, Bosh, Klimas, and Ramierez, but only if they can survive the final wave of the converted that are hot on their tail.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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30 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #39
The fire engine is tearing through the streets of Chicago, hosing down the converted as it does. It’s heading to Tim, Clarence, Cooper, Bosh, and Roth, but will it make it to them before the converted swarm into their store and butcher them all? Meanwhile, a Harley-riding Steve Stanton desperately searches for a way to kill his enemies before his kind is wiped out.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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27 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #38
Paulius and Bosh are about to take a road trip to end all road trips straight through the converted. Steve Stanton’s reaction to Paulius ripping through Chicago in a firetruck could determine the fate of the human race. Meanwhile, Tim Feely is guns up for the first time in his life, a life that will soon end if he can’t shoot straight.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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25 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #37
Clarence Otto has come to realize the harsh truth about his wife, Margaret Montoya. In this episode, he will face his worst fears. Meanwhile, Paulius Klimas and his soldiers seek out a way to deliver Tim Feely’s bioweapon to the converted, and Murray Longworth is about to step deeper into the nuclear-powered politics of a world gone mad.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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30 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #36
Tim, Cooper, Paulius, Cooper, and Margaret survived the Battle of Chicago, but their ordeal isn’t over yet. Now Paulius and Tim will present Clarence with an impossible decision. Murray Longworth remains in the White House, in a Washington D.C. that is under siege by the converted and about to fall. Meanwhile, Steve Stanton deals with the fallout of that same battle — his slim victory and a pending air strike leave him with hard choices.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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37 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #35
Margaret Montoya’s attempts to escape have failed. Now one of the converted, Clarence Otto ponders how to save her while Tim Feely has other plans for his former boss. Paulius Klimas is boots on the ground, watching his men die around him. Is there a way to accomplish the mission and keep what’s left of his SEAL Team alive?
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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37 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #34
The battle of Chicago is in full swing. Steve Stanton’s forces are swarming in on the Windy City skyscraper that holds Cooper, Clarence, Margaret, Paulius and his SEAL team, and the rangers. Margaret’s time is up: if she’s going to make a move to escape, it has to be now. Can she escape? And if so, at what cost?
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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36 min

About The Infected Trilogy

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The Infected Trilogy is a three-book audio fiction series from #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Scott Sigler.

"Part Stephen King, part Chuck Palahniuk, INFECTED blends science fiction and horror into a pulpy masterpiece of action, terror, and suspense.” James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas Strain and Black Order

“INFECTED is a marvel of gonzo, in-your-face, up-to-the-minute terror.” Lincoln Child, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Storm and Death Match

"INFECTED is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. It’s one hell of an exhilarating ride." Joe R. Lansdale, World Horror Convention Grand Master and six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Bubba Ho-Tep and Hap & Leonard

SEASON 1: INFECTED

Across America, a mysterious disease turns ordinary people into raving murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim.

With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly pathogen. She learns that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.

Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.

The fate of the human race hinges on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.

SEASON 2: CONTAGIOUS

The brutal epidemic sweeping America is driven not by evolution, but rather by some unknown, malevolent intelligence. Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group assembled under the strictest secrecy.

Hulking former football star Perry Dawsey possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the disease’s hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Dawsey is both the nation’s best hope and a terrifying liability.

Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with Perry if they’re going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent.

Working with them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors.

This trio has kept humanity in the game, but when the disease becomes contagious, it triggers a fast countdown to Armageddon.

SEASON 3: PANDEMIC

To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero — a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she’s a monster—a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil.

All Margaret knows is that she’s broken. The blood of a million deaths stain her hands. Endless guilt and crippling nightmares chew at her, take pieces of her soul, drown her in self-hatred so crippling she can't salvage her marriage, let alone be even a shadow of the warrior she once was.

But Margaret is about to be called into action again. Because before the murderous intelligence was destroyed, it launched one last payload — a soda can–sized container filled with deadly microorganisms that makes humans feed upon their own kind.

CREDITS:

Presented by Empty Set Entertainment

Written by Scott Sigler

Narrated by Scott Sigler (S1 & S2) and Phil Gigante (S3)

Audio engineering by Steve Riekeberg (SteveRiekeberg.com)

Podcast production assistance by Allie Press and Evo Terra of Simpler Media Productions (Simpler.media)