Super Spreader: A Novel

by Forrest Maready

Thomas Finch, a rebellious doctor, finds himself the subject of a global manhunt, wanted for the murder of one of the most beloved figures in public health. When a miraculous healing technology is unveiled, set to forever fuse the relationship between science and faith, its founders make the doctor a deal he can’t they will cure his daughter of a debilitating injury—if he’ll turn himself in.

With a disturbing pattern of suicides beginning to appear, the doctor—already suspicious of a world-wide vaccination program pushed on an unsuspecting public in the wake of a recent pandemic—begins to believe another, more nefarious, plan is underway; his harrowing adventure to uncover and stop it frustrated by a heart condition he fears could kill him at any moment.

Best-selling author Forrest Maready takes a break from his non-fiction work for this stunning thriller that pits the lone doctor, hated by many for his unorthodox views, against the global powers that seek to control. Super Spreader is a wild ride from page one all the way to the thrilling end.

Forrest Maready is a native of North Carolina and graduate of Wake Forest University, where he studied religion and music. He is the author of over a dozen books, many of them stemming from years of medical research. The Moth in the Iron Lung, his most popular, tells the true story of polio—a tale much different than most were taught as children.

415 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 2, 2022

About the author

After graduating from Wake Forest University with a degree in Religion and Music, Maready plied his trade in the film industry for several years, working on several Muppet movies, four seasons of Dawson’s Creek, and many other films and television shows as an audio engineer, editor, composer, and animator. He transitioned into technology as a designer and developer for visual effects software and CTO at NextGlass (now called Untappd). While at NextGlass, he helped develop machine learning software to wrangle the gigabytes of data being generated from their mass spectrometer and liquid chemical analyzers.

Creator of the popular “My Incredible Opinion” and “VaxBaby” video series, he has spent the last few years researching and writing about some of the most enigmatic riddles of science and medicine, notably autism and polio. Forrest has spoken at events and conferences around the country but prefers to stay close to his writing home in the cab of a 1992 F-150, where many of his manuscripts were composed. He lives with his wife and son in Wilmington, N.C. and enjoys tennis, piano, and competitive shooting.