In Episode One, we saw the grisly demise of Wicked Charlie Petrovsky, the desperate struggle of Candice Walker, the endless efforts of the Orbital, and the long-term effects of Chelsea Jewell’s “smoochies.” In this episode, we catch up with two survivors of CONTAGIOUS—Margaret Montoya and Clarence Otto. Five years after CONTAGIOUS ended, we see where life has landed these two heroes. We also meet a new character, Steve Stanton, a young engineer whose choices and actions will soon have a worldwide impact.

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Welcome to Episode One of the serial audiobook PANDEMIC, Book III of the INFECTED Trilogy. If you haven’t read the first two books, INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS, do that first! We beseech thee! Get those books in print, as eBooks, or full-length audiobooks by visiting our INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS pages.

Let’s get this party started—the first of forty episodes in a serial audiobook. Get some!

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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 stains her hands. Guilt and nightmares have turned her into a shut-in, too mired in self-hatred to salvage her marriage, let alone be the warrior she once was.

But she 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 make humans feed upon their own kind.

That harmless-looking container has languished a thousand feet below the surface of Lake Michigan, undisturbed and impotent . . . until now.

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You're all done with Season Two of the INFECTED Trilogy. I hope you enjoyed it. The intense, world-crushing end to the trilogy, PANDEMIC, is available in this very podcast feed, with a whopping 40 episodes, all ready, for your fancy little ears.

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Thank you for spending time with my work. I really hope you enjoyed it, and I hope I get to entertain you a whole lot more.

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Here it is Junkies: the final episode. What happens to Perry? To Dew? To Chelsea and her Mommy? How about General Ogden? Margaret and Clarence? And how about the great city of Detroit?

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The Motor City is once again the murder capital of the world as bullets fly, rockets fire, and corpses stack up like cordwood. General Ogden's men are fighting tooth and nail, extracting a harsh price for every inch of ground lost. Perry attempts to close in on Chelsea, but only minutes remain before her Angels begin pouring through the gate!

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Planes explode, cities burn, guns fire, and blood flies. Chelsea Jewell will not be denied, she is hell-bent on opening the gate and allowing the Angels to come through. But can she stop The Boogeyman, aka Scary Perry Dawsey?

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The most bizarre interrogation you've ever seen, "the five-second rule," and Dew lays down the law with Margaret. The stage is set for Motor City carnage, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Pistons won back-to-back NBA titles. This episode is for you, Chuck Daley.

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The long, brutal final day of Contagious has begun. It should all be over, right? So why is Perry Dawsey hearing the voices again? And what are the voices telling him to do? Get ready for a shocker.

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A major character moves on to that gridiron in the sky. Margaret Montoya takes charge in Detroit, Dustin Climer spreads the Word of Chelsea and Perry gets his gun. That *can't* be good, can it?

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