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After a teenage party in western Nebraska turns into a deadly explosion, Maggie, a determined magazine journalist, investigates the strange electrocution cases and discovers that the teen survivors are being systematically targeted. Parallel to this, Army Colonel Benjamin Platt arrives at a Virginia elementary school where children have been struck by a mysterious pathogen. Though miles apart, Maggie and Platt gradually realize that the two incidents are connected by a covert secret, forcing them to unravel a hidden conspiracy before more lives are lost.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Thriller/Medical Thriller
Authors: Alex Kava
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