New Releases by Scott Sigler

Perry non è l’unico contagiato, e le persone che ospitano i parassiti, molecole d’ignota provenienza, cedono a una folle paranoia che le conduce a scorgere ovunque macchinose cospirazioni, fino a portarle in poco tempo all’omicidio o al suicidio. Gli Stati Uniti hanno forse subìto un attacco batteriologico che rischia di condurre la nazione all’autodistruzione? La CIA, allertata dall’epidemiologa Margaret Montoya, indaga segretamente, ma ha bisogno di un sopravvissuto per osservare da vicino questa strana e nuova malattia. Il compito di trovarlo spetta all’agente Dew Phillips. Perry è la preda perfetta per Phillips, e mentre il primo ingaggia una furiosa lotta contro i parassiti ormai in grado di interagire con il suo cervello, il secondo inizia a capire con sempre più chiarezza quale sia il loro mistero. Perry è nelle mani della CIA, ma questo non è sufficiente a proteggerlo: i parassiti, quasi fossero esseri senzienti, si rivelano una minaccia per l’intera umanità, e a Phillips non resta che fermarli per cercare di salvare il mondo in cui vive. Scott Sigler è un talento nuovo e coraggioso, intelligente e inquietante. Per la sua capacità di tenere insieme thriller e fantascienza è stato paragonato a Richard Matheson. Contagio è un mix di azione, sangue e caos... Una volta iniziato non sarete più in grado di metterlo giù.

Dopo atroci sofferenze, Perry Dawsey, ex giocatore di football alcolizzato, guarisce dall’infezione aliena grazie alla dottoressa Montoya. Tuttavia è ancora in grado di percepire le voci dei triangoli e decide di dare la caccia agli altri infettati per ucciderli. Dopo un violento scontro con l’agente della Cia Dew Phillips, accetta di collaborare con la squadra della Margomobile. Nel frattempo il satellite alieno, l’Orbital, sgancia dal cielo una nuova serie di spore che controllano direttamente il cervello degli ospiti. La famiglia Jewell, composta dalla piccola Chelsea e dai suoi genitori, viene infettata dal morbo: la bambina diventa il capo incontrastato delle manovre aliene e vuole aiutare le ‘bamboline’ a costruire la loro porta. Perché il colonnello Charlie Ogden e la compagnia Raggi X riescono a percepire i pensieri di Chelsea? Perché si dirigono a Detroit contravvenendo agli ordini del presidente degli Stati Uniti? L’agente Dew e la compagnia dell’esercito che non è stata contagiata hanno poco tempo per salvare l’umanità, dalla distruzione totale... e proprio quando l’infezione sembra del tutto debellata, si fa strada una nuova minaccia sotto le vesti di uno strano contenitore, progettato per resistere a qualunque incidente.

"The conclusion to the ... Infected series"--Jacket.

Scott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in his bestselling novels Infected and Contagious… rebooted the biotech thriller in Ancestor…now, in his most ambitious, sweeping novel to date, he works his magic on the paranormal thriller, taking us inside a terrifying underworld of subterranean predators that only his twisted mind could invent. Homicide detective Bryan Clauser is losing his mind. How else to explain the dreams he keeps having—dreams that mirror, with impossible accuracy, the gruesome serial murders taking place all over San Francisco? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him—not disgust, not horror, but excitement? As Bryan and his longtime partner, Lawrence “Pookie” Chang, investigate the murders, they learn that things are even stranger than they at first seem. For the victims are all enemies of a seemingly ordinary young boy—a boy who is gripped by the same dreams that haunt Bryan. Meanwhile, a shadowy vigilante, seemingly armed with superhuman powers, is out there killing the killers. And Bryan and Pookie’s superiors—from the mayor on down—seem strangely eager to keep the detectives from discovering the truth. Doubting his own sanity and stripped of his badge, Bryan begins to suspect that he’s stumbled into the crosshairs of a shadow war that has gripped his city for more than a century—a war waged by a race of killers living in San Francisco’s unknown, underground ruins, emerging at night to feed on those who will not be missed. And as Bryan learns the truth about his own intimate connections to the killings, he discovers that those who matter most to him are in mortal danger…and that he may be the only man gifted—or cursed—with the power to do battle with the nocturnals. Featuring a dazzlingly plotted mystery and a terrifying descent into a nightmarish underworld—along with some of the most incredible action scenes ever put to paper, and an explosive, gut-wrenching conclusion you won’t soon forget—Nocturnal is the most spectacular outing to date from one of the genre’s brightest stars.

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered the holy grail of medicine--a computer-engineered living creature whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection. There''s just one problem: these "ancestors" are not docile.

Der Mensch ist eine leichte Beute Detective Bryan Clauser und sein Partner Chang werden zum Schauplatz eines grauenhaften Mordes gerufen. Bryan bemerkt dort einen seltsamen Geruch, der nur ihm auffällt. Er fühlt sich seltsam in letzter Zeit, makabre Visionen suchen ihn heim. Weitere blutige Morde geschehen. Alle Hinweise deuten auf einen spurlos verschwundenen Jungen. Die Cops geraten auf die Spur eines unheimlichen Kults, während Bryan merkt, dass er sich zu verändern beginnt. Es gibt etwas, das unter den Strassen der Metropole lebt, das lauert und sich vermehrt. Es kommt in der Nacht ... Schon zu Schulzeiten schrieb Scott Sigler seine ersten Geschichten. Als Autor von Kurzgeschichten, Drehbüchern und Romanen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaftsthriller und modernem Horror hat er sich einen Namen gemacht Die grossen Verlage wurden auf ihn aufmerksam, nachdem er den Thriller "EarthCore" als weltweit ersten exklusiven Podcast-Roman in zwanzig Episoden veröffentlichte und auf Anhieb rund 10.000 Abonnenten fand. Inzwischen wurden weltweit bereits mehr als drei Millionen seiner Podcasts heruntergeladen. Scott Sigler lebt mit seiner Frau Jody und zwei Hunden in San Francisco.

Undefeated galactic heavyweight champion Korak the Cutter has defeated all challengers, destroying everyone in his path, but the wins aren''t as easy as they used to be. After a decade of perfect fighting, his age is catching up with him. For a Quyth Warrior, that means he''s slowing down, and speed is the name of the game in mixed martial arts. At this late stage in his career, he faces a nightmare savage and unpredictable Chiyal "The Heretic" North. As crime lords and promoters try to fix the fight, and as managers cling to dreams of lost glory, Korak and Chiyal must find their way into the octagon to decide once and for all who is the greatest of all time. Co-written with Parsec Award-winning author Matt Wallace, TITLE FIGHT delivers a scifi/mma one-two knockout. This novella is part of the Galactic Football League series, which is described as THE BLIND SIDE meets THE GODFATHER meets STAR WARS.

Atemlose Spannung: Scott Sigler ist der Meister des zeitgemäßen Nervenkitzels! Kult-Autor Scott Sigler lädt Sie ein zu drei abgrundtief bösen und atemberaubend harten Stories aus dem Sigler-Universum. In Roter Mann erzählt Sigler von einer Gesellschaft, in der die Auswüchse der Gen-Technik zu einer erschreckenden Anwendung kommen. Iowa-Taifun handelt von netten Leuten in einer netten amerikanischen Kleinstadt, die von einem Moment auf den anderen schreckliche Dinge tun: Siglers vielleicht perfidestes Werk. In Die große Snipe-Jagd machen sich einige wissbegierige Studenten auf die Scherzjagd nach einer fiktiven unbekannten Spezies – und finden dann tatsächlich eine: Mit blutigen Folgen ... Scott Sigler ließ es sich zusätzlich nicht nehmen, zu jeder Geschichte einen Kommentar zu schreiben, der Einblick in seine abgründige Ideenwerkstatt gibt. Ebenfalls enthalten ist eine Leseprobe aus dem neuen großen Scott-Sigler-Roman Die Verborgenen. »Eine atemberaubende Mischung aus Stephen King und Chuck Palahniuk.« James Rollins

THE DETECTIVE is a bit of back story for Frederico Esteban Guissepe Gonzaga and his search for the family of Quentin Barnes. THE DETECTIVE takes place from roughly March 2683, to March 2684. Where applicable, the chapters are named to map to the action in THE ALL-PRO (Book III in the Galactic Football League series). The story actually begins, however, on unknown dates during Book II, THE STARTER. In terms of the GFL timeline, THE DETECTIVE runs from roughly Week Seven of the 2683 regular season in THE STARTER through Week Ten of the 2684 regular season in THE ALL-PRO. This novella is part of the Galactic Football League series, which is described as THE BLIND SIDE meets THE GODFATHER meets STAR WARS.

THE MVP is the fourth book in the Galactic Football League series, following on THE ROOKIE, THE STARTER and THE ALL-PRO. Set in a lethal American professional football league seven centuries in the future, THE MVP puts huge humans on the field with four alien races, creating a game that is faster, stronger and deadlier than anything we know today. Star quarterback Quentin Barnes has spent three seasons putting together a hard-hitting, hard-fighting team that combines rookies, rejects, discarded free agents and seasoned veterans from all five species. He has fought against racism and bound his team together through shared sacrifice, blood, tragedy and victory. But this season, Quentin faces the biggest challenge yet - the deadly threat of the mysterious Prawatt, who seized the ship carrying Quentin, and his teammates. As THE MVP begins, the Ionath Krakens face certain death at the hands of this unknown race. The GFL series combines science fiction, crime and blistering sports action to create a non-stop, pulse-pounding adventure that you can''t put down until the last second ticks off the clock. Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy the Galactic Football League Science Fiction Space Opera Series: Mike Lupica Tim Green Buzz Bissinger Joe Haldeman Orson Scott Card David Webber Richard K Morgan George Lucas Robert A. Heinlein Daniel Arenson Nathan Lowell Scott Westerfeld Fans of the following books and series are known to enjoy the Galactic Football League Sci Fi Saga: Star Wars Guardians of the Galaxy Starship Troopers Altered Carbon Mech Warrior Jurassic Park Star Trek Hitchhikers Guide Aliens Friday Night Lights Any Given Sunday Draft Day Keywords related to the Galactic Football League Young Adult Science Fiction Series: Alien Contact, Supernatural, Humorous Science Fiction, Box Set, Bundle, Series, Omnibus, Epic, Saga, Monsters, Dinosaurs, Sports, Football, Mech, Robots, Battlebots, AI, Future, Futuristic, Space Travel, Krakens, Xenomorph, Galaxy, Galaxies, Star, Stars

The Reporter follows Yolanda Davenport, a reporter for Galaxy Sports Magazine, as she searches for the truth about Ju Tweedy''s involvement with the murder of Grace McDermot - the incident that drove Ju to join the Ionath Krakens. The Reporter takes place between week three and week six of the 2684 Galactic Football League season, the season that encompasses The All-Pro. This novella is co-written by Scott Sigler and Mur Lafferty.

This collection brings you more of Scott''s thought-provoking short stories from his six years of weekly storytelling, as well as a brand-new HUNTER HUNTERSON & SONS story and a brand-new KISSYMAN tale. STORIES INCLUDE: • Passenger • Bag Man • Chuckles Mulrooney, Attorney for the Damned • Hero • Eusocial Networking • You''re A Damn Fool, Charlie Brown • Kissyman & The Last Song • Hunter Hunterson & Sons: Home • Hunter Hunterson & Sons: The $15 Burger (script)

CIA operative Dew Phillips, working together with CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya, race to stop the spread of a mysterious disease that is turning ordinary people into murderers. A former football player who has become infected with the deadly bioengineered parasite may carry the cure.

THE ALL-PRO is the third book in the Galactic Football League series, following on THE ROOKIE and THE STARTER. Seven centuries into the future, aliens and humans compete for the greatest prize in the universe: the Galaxy Bowl trophy. Quarterback Quentin Barnes enters his third season at the helm of the Ionath Krakens. He''s re-shaped the team in his image, and the time for excuses is over -- it''s win, or be replaced. Quentin''s championship quest carries he and his teammates across the galaxy in a brutal twelve-game season fraught with injury and death.But he faces more than just on-field challenges. As he enters a free-agent year, several franchises vie for his services. Will he play for a new team, or will he remain with his beloved Krakens. And then there''s the slight distraction that someone, somewhere, is trying to assassinate him - and he doesn''t know why.The GFL series is described as "STAR WARS" meets "REMEMBER THE TITANS" meets "THE GODFATHER." Join the Krakens as they fight to take the title and achieve immortality.

Das ultimative Raubtier Genetiker entwickeln eine DNA, die Millionen von Schwerkranken wieder hoffen lässt. Daraus lassen sich Lebewesen züchten, die als Organspender dienen können. Doch das Experiment, höchst illegal und auf einer entlegenen Station in der Arktis durchgeführt, hat einen tödlichen Ausgang: Die Kreaturen sind perfekte Raubtiere, und plötzlich steht der Mensch nicht mehr an der Spitze der Nahrungskette.

A collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of INFECTED, CONTAGIOUS and ANCESTOR. This eBook-only title features seven tales from Scott''s six years of free audiobook podcasts, including the Parsec Award-winning “Red Man,” plus the brand-new novella "Hunter Hunterson & Sons.” Scott still gives away his audio stories -- for free -- every week. Stories in BLOOD IS RED: Number One with a Bullet In the high-stakes world of the National Football League, a wasted draft choice can cost careers and damage a franchise for years to come. The investigators of NFL security dig into the past of potential draft picks. When they investigate sure-fire number-one pick Eugene Patterson, however, they find far more than they want to know. Red Man To be marked as a sex offender, a pedophile, a child rapist, is to carry stigma that all but banishes you from society. And if that mark is literal -- a permanent, inoperable face tattoo -- anonymity vanishes, and all who see you know of your crime. For a man who is wrongly convicted of horrible deeds, this mark becomes his life. Red Man won the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Short Story. Wolf In the time before man, one social animal ruled the Americas. The wolf. Wolf packs roamed the continent, hunting and killing and breeding. They were the dominant species: a full wolf pack could back down any predator, even the great grizzly bears. But before any wolf ever saw the death that would walk on two legs, there came another danger ... The Great Snipe Hunt Nature abhors a vacuum. One such vacuum exists in the “urban ecologies” of our cities. From bacteria to insects, from rodents to hawks, from feral cats to the mass numbers of pigeons, plants and animals weave together a web of life that goes mostly unnoticed by humans. What is missing from this mosaic? The role of the dominant predator. Four college students set out to find this mythical creature, the “Snipe,” and learn that a vacuum isn’t the only thing nature abhors. Iowa Typhoon Come on, come visit Fenders Pointe, IA. We’d love to have you stop by, see the trees, smell the flowers, and relax with our Midwestern hospitality. Only, you should try to schedule around the rainy season. If you’re here when the typhoons hit, we’ll be happy to welcome you as a permanent resident. Sacred Cow There is a fine line between absent-minded genius and idiot savant. Gordo Gordon keeps a foot planted firmly on either side. Father Al knows this better than anyone. Like a guardian angel, Father Al watches over Gordo and tolerates the young man’s endless -- and useless -- inventions. When Gordo creates a theory to track “prayer energy,” however, Father Al will find a religious secret that puts his faith to the test. Hunter Hunterson & Sons Welcome to the family business. Hunter Hunterson and his kin live in Slayerville, KY, making their living chasing crack-smoking ogres, peeping-tom phantoms, bail-jumping zombie pimps and the occasional rabid unicorn. They are bounty hunters that track down the netherworld’s most wanted. When a methed-out vampire (and family friend) goes on a road-trip rampage, Hunter and his kin pack up the truck and follow the trail of corpses all the way to San Francisco. This reality-TV style story feels like a combination of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” meets “Ghostbusters” meets “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Hunter’s “war journal” is a mix of tawdry laughs and gut-churning horror. Mt. Fitzroy (first chapter) In 2005, Sigler released EARTHCORE as the world’s first podcast-only novel. His fans have been waiting since then for MT. FITZROY, the second book in the trilogy. BLOOD IS RED features the first chapter of this oft-promised and long-delayed sequel. Join Patrick O’Doyle and Bertha Lybrand as they head back down below to deliver a heapin’ helpin’ of revenge.

Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, THE ROOKIE is a story that combines the intense gridiron action of "Any Given Sunday" with the space opera style of "Star Wars" and the criminal underworld of "The Godfather." Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed and rival players are assassinated. Follow the story of Quentin Barnes, a 19-year-old quarterback prodigy that has been raised all his life to hate, and kill, those aliens. Quentin must deal with his racism and learn to lead, or he''ll wind up just another stat in the column marked "killed on the field." In the Galactic Football League, wars are no longer fought in space, but on the gridiron. If you like aliens and football then I suspect you''re unlikely to find a better combination than than THE ROOKIE.

THE STARTER is the sequel to THE ROOKIE, a hard-hitting, bone-crunching YA sports/scifi novel described as "Any Given Sunday" meets "The Godfather" meets "Star Wars." It''s high-stakes, win-or-die football action in the far future, as aliens and humans fill positions based on physiology and leave their blood, sweat and tears on gridirons across the galaxy. Last season, 19-year-old rookie quarterback Quentin Barnes overcame his racism and unified his team. He led the Ionath Krakens to a lower-tier championship, a championship that earns them promotion into the meat grinder known as "Tier One." Now, he and the Krakens have to compete against the greatest football teams ever assembled and do far more than just survive each game. As he rebuilds the team in his own image, Quentin''s quest for a Tier One championship begins in THE STARTER.

“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.” From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true. Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding''s team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection. There''s just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding''s team envisioned. Instead, Colding’s work has given birth to something big, something evil. With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda. As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-ride—and offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.

From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity’s secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence. Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group, assembled under the strictest secrecy. Their best weapon is hulking former football star Perry Dawsey, left psychologically shattered by his own struggles with this terrible enemy, who possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the disease’s hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Perry is both the nation’s best hope and a terrifying liability. Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with him if they’re going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent. Alongside them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors. These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but that’s not good enough anymore, not when the disease turns contagious, triggering a fast countdown to Armageddon. Meanwhile, other enemies join the battle, and a new threat — one that comes from a most unexpected source — may ultimately prove the most dangerous of all. Catapulting the reader into a world where humanity’s life span is measured in hours and the president’s finger hovers over the nuclear button, rising star Scott Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. Contagious is a truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.

Drie medewerkers van de CIA proberen een persoon te traceren die geïnfecteerd is met een onbekend levensbedreigend virus.

A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page. “Fraught with tension . . . Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Hot Zone.”—Rocky Mountain News Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common—they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science. Meanwhile Perry Dawsey—a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey—awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected. The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.

"FM 92,5 - Hörertelefon. Worüber möchten Sie sprechen?" - "Ich habe sie alle umgebracht." Die Epidemologin Margaret Montoya wird bei der CIA mit einer seltsamen Krankheit konfrontiert. Aufgrund eines unbekannten Erregers verwandeln sich normale Menschen in Psychopathen, die ihre Familien töten und sich selbst auf grauenerregende Weise umbringen. Montoya und die US-Regierung glauben zunächst an eine terroristische Attacke mit einer neuartigen Biowaffe, doch die Wahrheit ist noch viel alarmierender ... Schon zu Schulzeiten schrieb Scott Sigler seine ersten Geschichten. Als Autor von Kurzgeschichten, Drehbüchern und Romanen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaftsthriller und modernem Horror hat er sich einen Namen gemacht.