The Infected Trilogy

By Scott SiglerFiction Science Fiction

The Infected Trilogy episodes

January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #23
Murray Longworth is in the White House’s situation room with the people who are in charge of responding to the infection, the people who will decide the fate of the United States and the world. It’s DEFCON time. Meanwhile, Cooper Mitchell is still in the boiler room, dealing with the horror of what is happening to his friend Jeff Brockman. And Margaret Montoya drops a bombshell on Clarence Otto. With this news, their lives will never be the same.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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27 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #22
Cooper Mitchell and Jeff Brockman partied hard to celebrate a job well done. Now, Cooper wakes up to find that things are breaking down, that the city of Chicago has become a most unwelcome place. Their former boss, Steve Stanton, has become something new. He is also in Chicago but will soon find himself embracing the Chicago carnage in a way very different from Cooper's.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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42 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #21
The United States government is distributing an inoculant to protect people against the coming infection, but are people willing to take it? Will they believe, and will they believe in time to make a difference? Margaret Montoya’s transformation reaches a critical phase, and in the Situation Room of the White House, Murray Longworth is a witness to the pending disaster.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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30 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #20
Dr. Tim Feely discovered that he could pinpoint infection outbreaks by looking for statistical spikes in the consumption of cough drops and other medications that treated the pathogen’s symptoms. While that worked in the small population of the Operation Wolf’s Head task force, he’s waiting to see how his model works with the population of the United States. SEAL team commander Paulius Klimas was forced to name one of his own as a subject of an inoculation experiment and will soon learn of the results of that experiment. And, In Chicago, Steve Stanton, Cooper Mitchell, and Jeff Brockman partied till the wee hours of the morning, celebrating a job well done. They will awake to a world that has already begun to change.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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34 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #19
The Mary Ellen Moffet has reached Chicago and brought with it a cargo of pending death. Back on Lake Michigan, Margaret Montoya is also caught up in a swirl of doom that threatens to drag her into hell. Her hallucinations of Perry Daswey are nightmares growing in urgency and intensity. Murray Longworth has become the President’s go-to man for this crisis — will proximity to the leader of the free world be enough for him to change the course of history? And Tim Feely might be the last person on the planet who can stop this carnage from happening.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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37 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #18
The Mary Ellen Moffet collected the piece of the Orbital, and in doing so, her crew was infected. Cooper, Jeff, Jose, Bo Pan, and Steve Stanton have all been exposed, and now are about to disembark in Chicago. Bo Pan is expecting Steve Stanton to deliver his data to the Chinese government, but Steve is terrified of what will happen to him after he does.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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36 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #17
Margaret is having vivid dreams bordering on hallucinations about one Scary Perry Dawsey. He’s talking to her in these dreams, but what is he trying to communicate to her? Bo Pan, the Chinese agent directing Steve Stanton, is still on the Mary Ellen Moffet as it steams toward Chicago. And way back in Book II, CONTAGIOUS, Margaret and Clarence Otto had a run-in with Dr. Cheng that turned into a power struggle. Margaret won that battle, but who will win this time?
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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38 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #16
Steve Stanton’s robot submersible, the Platypus, went to the depths of Lake Michigan to retrieve part of the Orbital, but did it accidentally bring something else up with it? SEAL Commander Paulius Klimas and his team rescued Margaret Montaya from the pitched battle on the surface of Lake Michigan, but her ordeal is not over yet — she was exposed, and as such, she must be tested.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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27 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #15
When the Los Angeles attacked the Operation Wolf’s Head task force, hundreds of sailors died — and SEAL team commander Paulius Kilmas was ordered to stand by and watch, to not help in any way. Has the opportunity for him to become a player in this scenario finally arrived? Meanwhile, the Mary Ellen Moffet steams toward Chicago. Cooper Mitchell will finally be rid of Steve Stanton, Bo Pan, and the material recovered from the Los Angeles. The pending doom floating on Lake Michigan finally comes to a head…carnage abounds.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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35 min
January 13, 2023PANDEMIC Episode #14
Aboard the Mary Ellen Moffet, Cooper Mitchell is close to completing the job for Steve Stanton and Bo Pan — the robot submersible Platypus is returning from the wreck of the Los Angeles, and it carries with it a piece of the Orbital. If the Moffet can collect the robot and the piece of Orbital, then the job is done. On board the Carl Brashears, Conroy Austin is unconscious as his body slowly changes into something else, something not human. And Tim Feely’s data-mining work is about to produce some very disturbing results.
Written by Scott Sigler
Performed by Phil Gigante
Produced by Empty Set Entertainment

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35 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)