This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Features a full cast of AI-generated voices, with dedicated voices assigned to recurring characters throughout the story. About Story- Thirty-one people are missing. The FBI thinks it is a serial killer. The truth is much, much worse.
FBI Special Agent Sarah Collins has spent three years hunting a ghost. A brilliant, meticulous predator has been abducting transient men off the streets of the eastern seaboard, leaving no bodies, no clues, and no mistakes. Until he breaks his own rules and abducts Emily Carter, the daughter of a prominent Massachusetts state senator.
Following a microscopic trail of financial anomalies, Sarah tracks the killer into the freezing wilderness of northern Maine. What she finds is not a serial killer's basement. It is a massive, subterranean military bunker built to withstand a nuclear strike.
Inside, she discovers Ethan Trent, a sociopathic mathematical genius holding thirty dying men hostage in heavily reinforced ballistic glass vaults.
But Ethan is not torturing them for pleasure. He is using them as fuel.
Buried three hundred feet underground, Ethan is the only thing standing between the human race and a microscopic apex predator that defies the laws of thermodynamics. He is feeding the infected men to keep the colony anchored to their biology. If the host dies, the pathogen breaks containment and consumes the planet.
Sarah thought she was hunting a monster. Now, locked underground with the infected violently breaching the vault, she must rely on the killer's terrifying brilliance to survive. But Ethan Trent has calculated every variable, including the United States military's catastrophic response.
And his backup plan has already been unleashed.
