Ergebnis für "Virus 1" in Thriller

On a scorching hot summer day, Sweden's capital, Stockholm, is hit by a mysterious and violent virus. Within days, the city, the country and perhaps all of civilisation is a wasteland. A tiny fraction of humanity find that they are immune to the contagion. Now they are forced to navigate through...

Als die ersten Berichte über einen tödlichen Virus auftauchten, verstand Andrew Schneider nicht, was genau passierte. Doch innerhalb weniger Tage breitete sich die Seuche mit erschreckender Geschwindigkeit über die Welt aus. Während die Welt um ihn herum zusammenbrach, begann auch er, sich zu verändern. Sein Tagebuch wurde sein einziger Begleiter, sein einziger Zeuge des Grauens. Doch Andrew besitzt eine besondere Fähigkeit – eine Begabung, die ihm immer wieder das Leben rettet.

Millionen Infizierte, kein Impfstoff - und ein perfider Plan! Die Verlobte des US-amerikanischen Investigativjournalisten Gideon Connor erkrankt an einer extrem seltenen Form von Leukämie. Connor forscht nach Wegen, das Leben seiner Verlobten zu retten - aber was er herausfindet, übersteigt seine schlimmsten Vorstellungen: Die Krankheit wird vom Retrovirus HTLV-1 ausgelöst, mit dem bereits über 20 Millionen Menschen auf der Welt infiziert sind.

Was, wenn eine jahrhundertealte Seuche aus der Arktis zurückkehrt? Als in Berlin Obdachlose an Milzbrand sterben, ist Wissenschaftsjournalistin Nina Falkenberg alarmiert. Die Fälle erinnern an ein Ereignis in Alaska vor 10 Jahren, als das Auftauen des Permafrostbodens einen tödlichen Erreger freisetzte. Ebenfalls in Alaska verschwindet Ninas Freund, der Milzbrand-Forscher Gereon Kirchner. Nina bittet ihren Bekannten Tom Morell, dorthin zu reisen und herauszufinden, was passiert ist. Schon kurz nach Toms Ankunft taucht in einem Eistunnel eine Frauenleiche auf.

The entire human race balances on the razor's edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares. To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero-a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she's a monster - a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. All Margaret knows is that she's broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands.

When a young woman in New York City dies mysteriously after a trip to Brussels, top epidemiologist Lowell Kaplan identifies the cause of death as the Marburg Virus - a fatal strain that has surfaced only once before in history. Determined to trace the source of the disease, Kaplan follows a trail of intrigue from the labs of Germany to the jungles of Central Africa. With danger nipping at his heels and the secrets of the virus' origin kept deliberately under wraps, Kaplan must go to unimaginable lengths to stop a deadly scheme.

In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

From the imaginative mind of international best-selling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today's headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity from viruses one-billionth our size. Mr. Akart has delivered up-all-night thrillers in his 40-plus novels. His new Virus Hunters novels will give you pause and remind you that we're in a global war for survival against an unseen foe.

Comme chaque matin, Amandine a quitté sa maison de verre pour les locaux de l'Institut Pasteur. Mais ce matin-là est particulier. Appelée pour des prélèvements à la réserve ornithologique du Marquenterre, la microbiologiste est déconcertée : trois cadavres de cygnes gisent sur une étendue d'eau. En forêt de Meudon, un homme et son chien ont été abattus. Dans l'étang tout proche, un sac de toile contenant des ossements : quatre corps en kit.

Dr. Lauren Hale, a new hospital resident, is nearly killed by a raving mad emergency room patient, in a senseless, unprovoked attack. Officer David Olson, veteran cop and former Marine, returns from a father-son camping trip to discover that his ex-wife has vanished under bizarre circumstances, and his police department is on the verge of collapse. Jack and Emma Harper, a young, upwardly mobile couple, find their hip city neighborhood rapidly descending into madness.

Dass in einem Krankenhaus Menschen sterben, ist keine Seltenheit. Wenn allerdings gewisse "Unregelmäßigkeiten" dazu führen, wird die Geschäftsleitung schnell nervös...

A young woman pours acid over her body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. Who or what has made ordinary Londoners commit such horrific acts? DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting police are at a loss. With no obvious connection between the killings, they fear a virus. Something evil is stirring in the city. A supernatural force that infects its victims with a lust to murder. And Jerry and Jamila are powerless to stop it...

The second wave of the Siberian Flu catches the country completely unprepared. Instead of killing the old and frail, the young and healthy are dropping . . . in hours, not days. Kate, a new doctor, will sacrifice everything to break her and her sister free from a controlling stepfather and a dead-end small town existence. Moments from landing the critical job she needs, St. Louis falls apart around her.

Something insidious has arrived - right in the heartland of our nation. Dr. Lauren Hale, a new hospital resident, is nearly killed by a raving mad emergency room patient, in a senseless, unprovoked attack. Officer David Olson, veteran cop and former Marine, returns from a father-son camping trip to discover that his ex-wife has vanished under bizarre circumstances and his police department is on the verge of collapse. Jack and Emma Harper, a young, upwardly mobile couple, find their hip city neighborhood rapidly descending into madness.