Atlanta Ground Zero

The cure came from his blood. Now the nation wants its reckoning.

Fourteen months after Dr. Adam Cross's blood produced the treatment that saved Atlanta, the city is still counting its scars - and it has not forgiven the man who nearly ended it. Cross waited thirty-six hours to confess his own infection. Eleven hundred people died in that window. Now their families have a name to put in a federal lawsuit, and a congressional hearing is waiting to make him answer in front of the whole country.

But the virus never left. Upstream in the Congo it has mutated into a strain the cure can no longer touch - and it is coming down the river toward home. As AGZ-1 fails and a second outbreak reaches the city, the government makes a discovery: Cross's blood was never unique. Somewhere, a nineteen-year-old stranger carries the same variant... and the people who protect the nation have decided to secure the source, whatever it costs her.

Adam Cross has answered for the harm behind him. Now he must decide how much of himself he will spend to keep from becoming the very thing he has spent his life fighting.

A gripping pandemic thriller for readers of A.G. Riddle, Chuck Wendig, and Robin Cook.
Book Two of the Atlanta Ground Zero series.