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316 pages, ebook
First published May 26, 2017
"...he was with Alpha Security International, a big security company in Portland."
"Nick wasn’t known for his long-term relationships, but he wasn’t a player, either."
And yet…it never failed to astonish her that people could be more dangerous than disease. More murderous, capable of much greater damage."
"The consensus was that Nick was a really good guy, one of the rare ones. Hard-headed, yes, stubborn as they come, but brave as a lion."
He must be wondering whether she suffered from some kind of mental or hormonal disorder. Maybe she was. Nick Lust Disorder.
“It’s just dessert, Nick.” He wasn’t smiling at all. “Not the way you’re eating it, sweetheart. You’re making this pure sex.”
"Nick the Lionheart!"
"...he hadn’t been to bed with anyone since that kiss. Pathetic, but there it was.
"She was a virologist and geneticist—the fuck he knew about genes? Except the fact that his were irresistibly drawn to hers."
"Kay was real and warm and funny and so sexy she turned him inside out without even trying."
“I don’t think I can make it to the bed,” he whispered against the skin of her neck. “Then don’t,” she whispered back."
“Wow.” Wow was right.
"They’d walked into her hotel room and then she’d found herself plastered against the wall, somehow her clothes had come off and enough of his clothes had come off to make sex possible and the rest was a sweaty blur."
“We’re not alone, honey. We have a team at our back.”
"I have a horrible feeling we’re looking at a powerful bio-weapon, maybe weaponized Spanish flu. Certainly, whatever killed Mike did it in a minute, a minute and a half."
“we’re a team. Where Nick goes, we go.”
“A perfect murder weapon. A virus tailored to someone’s DNA, delivered by drone. Essentially a natural death, put down to a sudden allergic attack, a stroke or a heart attack. The murderer can be far away, guiding the drone by a tablet, waiting for the right moment."
"It’s the perfect weapon, surgically precise."
“Dr. Frank Winstone. The head of the CDC.”
He’d betrayed her, he’d betrayed the thousands of people working for the CDC, he’d betrayed the thousands who’d risked their lives. He’d betrayed the millions of Americans who trusted the CDC to keep them safe.
“Bio-weapons, huh? Give me a gunned-up mobster any day.”
"Kay scienced the shit out of him.”