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Fire Engine 98 has picked up the survivors of the Chicago Cataclysm and is rumbling toward the extraction point. Helicopters are on the way to rescue Dr. Feely, Clarence Otto, Cooper Mitchell, Bosh, Klimas, and Ramierez, but only if they can survive the final wave of the converted that are hot on their tail. Written by Scott Sigler Performed by Phi…

The fire engine is tearing through the streets of Chicago, hosing down the converted as it does. It’s heading to Tim, Clarence, Cooper, Bosh, and Roth, but will it make it to them before the converted swarm into their store and butcher them all? Meanwhile, a Harley-riding Steve Stanton desperately searches for a way to kill his enemies before his k…

Paulius and Bosh are about to take a road trip to end all road trips straight through the converted. Steve Stanton’s reaction to Paulius ripping through Chicago in a firetruck could determine the fate of the human race. Meanwhile, Tim Feely is guns up for the first time in his life, a life that will soon end if he can’t shoot straight. Written by S…

Clarence Otto has come to realize the harsh truth about his wife, Margaret Montoya. In this episode, he will face his worst fears. Meanwhile, Paulius Klimas and his soldiers seek out a way to deliver Tim Feely’s bioweapon to the converted, and Murray Longworth is about to step deeper into the nuclear-powered politics of a world gone mad. Written by…

Tim, Cooper, Paulius, Cooper, and Margaret survived the Battle of Chicago, but their ordeal isn’t over yet. Now Paulius and Tim will present Clarence with an impossible decision. Murray Longworth remains in the White House, in a Washington D.C. that is under siege by the converted and about to fall. Meanwhile, Steve Stanton deals with the fallout o…

Margaret Montoya’s attempts to escape have failed. Now one of the converted, Clarence Otto ponders how to save her while Tim Feely has other plans for his former boss. Paulius Klimas is boots on the ground, watching his men die around him. Is there a way to accomplish the mission and keep what’s left of his SEAL Team alive? Written by Scott Sigler …

The battle of Chicago is in full swing. Steve Stanton’s forces are swarming in on the Windy City skyscraper that holds Cooper, Clarence, Margaret, Paulius and his SEAL team, and the rangers. Margaret’s time is up: if she’s going to make a move to escape, it has to be now. Can she escape? And if so, at what cost? Written by Scott Sigler Performed by…

Tim Feely is counting on the blood of Cooper Mitchell to provide a counter to the global pandemic that is on the edge of shattering civilization itself. Will Mitchell’s blood provide the answer Feely needs? Meanwhile, Magaret Montoya is trying to deal with an ever-growing list of threats. And the converted horde finally reaches Chicago’s Park Tower…

Margaret Montoya has a new set of enemies, enemies that are heavily armed and ready to kill. Can she escape their clutches and find her way to safety? Cooper Mitchell also has enemies, thousands of them. He’s been playing a desperate, dangerous game of survival, but is his rescue finally at hand? The US Military is gearing up for a major engagement…

Margaret Montoya has a new set of enemies, enemies that are heavily armed and ready to kill. Can she escape their clutches and find her way to safety? Cooper Mitchell also has enemies — thousands of them. He’s been playing a desperate, dangerous game of survival, but is his rescue finally at hand? The US Military is gearing up for a major engagemen…

The infection has shattered the East Coast. As Murray Longworth watches D.C. burn, President Blackmon preps for evacuation from the White House. Meanwhile, Steve Stanton has realized that Cooper Mitchell is the enemy of a new people and carries inside him the ability to destroy the Converted. And out on Lake Michigan, Clarence Otto, Paulius Kilmas,…

Cooper Mitchell has committed one atrocity after another, all in an effort to stay alive. Now he must deal with his friend Jeff and with what Jeff has become. Margaret Montoya has an ordeal of her own. Will she be able to push forward her vision for a better tomorrow? And Steve Stanton begins preparation for the final battle with humanity. Written …

The inoculation effort continues as America’s food industry turns to producing the yeast engineered by Tim Feely. Murray Longworth is part of that process, monitoring the distribution and praying America reaches a critical mass of immune people before it’s too late. And Cooper Mitchell spends the night with his new confederates and his old pal Jeff…

Cooper and Sofia escaped the Trump Tower, only to find themselves on the abandoned winter streets of Chicago. With no help, no hope, and only five bullets in the one gun they have between them, Cooper will be faced with an impossible choice that will challenge his very humanity. Written by Scott Sigler Performed by Phil Gigante Produced by Empty Se…

The infection spreads not just through America but through the entire world. China is the next nation to feel the sting. And at home in the US of A, Chicago is in chaos, suffering the brutal one-two punch of raving psychopaths and the bitterest Lake Michigan winter the city has felt in decades. And on the USS Coranado, Dr. Tim Feely's research poin…

The nightmare of the Chicago Trump Tower continues as Cooper Mitchell and Sofia try to find a way out, but if they do, what will they find on the streets of the infection-ravaged Windy City? And Steve Stanton comes of age and asserts his control over the new reality of a changed world. Written by Scott Sigler Performed by Phil Gigante Produced by E…

Cooper Mitchell remains trapped in the Chicago Trump Tower, which has become a place of freakshow horrors. He’s about to make a new friend…or is it a new enemy? Meanwhile, the infection spreads across the globe. Written by Scott Sigler Performed by Phil Gigante Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu

Murray Longworth is in the White House’s situation room with the people who are in charge of responding to the infection, the people who will decide the fate of the United States and the world. It’s DEFCON time. Meanwhile, Cooper Mitchell is still in the boiler room, dealing with the horror of what is happening to his friend Jeff Brockman. And Marg…

Cooper Mitchell and Jeff Brockman partied hard to celebrate a job well done. Now, Cooper wakes up to find that things are breaking down, that the city of Chicago has become a most unwelcome place. Their former boss, Steve Stanton, has become something new. He is also in Chicago but will soon find himself embracing the Chicago carnage in a way very …

The United States government is distributing an inoculant to protect people against the coming infection, but are people willing to take it? Will they believe, and will they believe in time to make a difference? Margaret Montoya’s transformation reaches a critical phase, and in the Situation Room of the White House, Murray Longworth is a witness to…

Dr. Tim Feely discovered that he could pinpoint infection outbreaks by looking for statistical spikes in the consumption of cough drops and other medications that treated the pathogen’s symptoms. While that worked in the small population of the Operation Wolf’s Head task force, he’s waiting to see how his model works with the population of the Unit…

The Mary Ellen Moffet has reached Chicago and brought with it a cargo of pending death. Back on Lake Michigan, Margaret Montoya is also caught up in a swirl of doom that threatens to drag her into hell. Her hallucinations of Perry Daswey are nightmares growing in urgency and intensity. Murray Longworth has become the President’s go-to man for this …

The Mary Ellen Moffet collected the piece of the Orbital, and in doing so, her crew was infected. Cooper, Jeff, Jose, Bo Pan, and Steve Stanton have all been exposed, and now are about to disembark in Chicago. Bo Pan is expecting Steve Stanton to deliver his data to the Chinese government, but Steve is terrified of what will happen to him after he …

Margaret is having vivid dreams bordering on hallucinations about one Scary Perry Dawsey. He’s talking to her in these dreams, but what is he trying to communicate to her? Bo Pan, the Chinese agent directing Steve Stanton, is still on the Mary Ellen Moffet as it steams toward Chicago. And way back in Book II, CONTAGIOUS, Margaret and Clarence Otto …

Steve Stanton’s robot submersible, the Platypus, went to the depths of Lake Michigan to retrieve part of the Orbital, but did it accidentally bring something else up with it? SEAL Commander Paulius Klimas and his team rescued Margaret Montaya from the pitched battle on the surface of Lake Michigan, but her ordeal is not over yet — she was exposed, …

When the Los Angeles attacked the Operation Wolf’s Head task force, hundreds of sailors died — and SEAL team commander Paulius Kilmas was ordered to stand by and watch, to not help in any way. Has the opportunity for him to become a player in this scenario finally arrived? Meanwhile, the Mary Ellen Moffet steams toward Chicago. Cooper Mitchell will…

Aboard the Mary Ellen Moffet, Cooper Mitchell is close to completing the job for Steve Stanton and Bo Pan — the robot submersible Platypus is returning from the wreck of the Los Angeles, and it carries with it a piece of the Orbital. If the Moffet can collect the robot and the piece of Orbital, then the job is done. On board the Carl Brashears, Con…

Orin Nagy’s rampage resulted in three more infected sailors. They are contained in the BSL-4 chambers on the USS Carl Brashears, but the new cases show the vector hovers on the edge of uncontrollable. Tim Feely’s yeast-based inoculant nears completion, but how will he test it as a defense against the infection? Meanwhile, Steve Stanton awaits conta…

Margaret Montoya and Tim Feely have been analyzing the infected body of Candice Walker, a crewmember of the Los Angeles, which attacked other ships in the Operation Wolf’s Head task force. They assumed Candice was part of the attacking crew but was there another reason she wound up among the casualties? Meanwhile, Murray Longworth has been tapped a…

Margaret Montoya was the person responsible for ordering the nuke strike on Detroit, an act that killed Dew Phillips, Perry Dawsey, and over a hundred thousand people. She’s carried that guilt with her nonstop ever since. Eric Edmund was injured when the submarine Los Angeles attacked the Operation Wolf Head task force. He’s brain dead, and the gov…

The autopsy and analysis of Candice Walker and Wicked Charlie Petrovsky continue, and, finally, Tim Feely finds a clue that could lead to stopping the infection. Chief Petty Officer Orin Nagy is looking for the opposite of that, for a way to spread the disease. And on the Mary Ellen Moffett, Steve Stanton is about to find out the hard way that Bo P…

Margaret Montoya and Tim Feely are in a race against time to analyze the rapidly decomposing bodies of Wicked Charlie Petrovsky and Candice Walker — but are either of those corpses still infectious? Meanwhile, Clarence Otto’s investigation of the divers who recovered the vector continues. If they were completely sealed up for deep-water work, how d…

Two divers brought up the remnant from the Los Angeles. One, Cantrel, is not infected, while the other, Clark, just tested positive. They are in BSL4 containment aboard the Carl Brashears, where Tim Feely, Margaret Montoya, and Clarence Otto are working to stop the disease’s spread. While Tim and Margaret analyze the black rot on the disease’s firs…

When the sub Los Angeles went rogue and attacked other ships in the Operation Wolf’s Head task force, there were many dead and many more wounded. US Navy personnel are still trying to process those in need, and they need to check each one for evidence of cellulose, a primary indicator of the disease that turns normal people into killers. The crew o…

Margaret and Otto have just arrived on the USS Carl Brashear, a military cargo ship converted to be the biohazard research headquarters of Operation Wolf’s Head, the mission to find and analyze the wreckage of the Orbital. Written by Scott Sigler Performed by Phil Gigante Produced by Empty Set Entertainment…

Margaret Montoya and Clarence Otto have been assigned to Operation Wolf’s Head to try and find out what happened to the Los Angeles, a nuclear sub converted to recovering the wreckage of the Orbital, an alien machine that started a deadly plague. Meanwhile, Steve Stanton and Bo Pan are also heading toward the watery grave of the Los Angeles. They a…

Operation Wolf’s Head was a secret naval task force charged with recovering any wreckage from “the Orbital,” the hostile piece of alien tech responsible for a hideous outbreak that threatened to wipe out humanity. One of the ships in that task force, the nuclear sub, Los Angeles, fired upon and sank other ships before it was itself destroyed. Two c…

Margaret Montoya’s life has fallen apart. After saving the world, she’s spent years as the target of endless Internet outrage for her role in the tragedy of Detroit. Her life is in shambles, and she’s become a shut-in, staying in her house to hide away from the world. Her husband, Clarence Otto, was in the process of telling her their marriage was …

In Episode One, we saw the grisly demise of Wicked Charlie Petrovsky, the desperate struggle of Candice Walker, the endless efforts of the Orbital, and the long-term effects of Chelsea Jewell’s “smoochies.” In this episode, we catch up with two survivors of CONTAGIOUS—Margaret Montoya and Clarence Otto. Five years after CONTAGIOUS ended, we see whe…

Welcome to Episode One of the serial audiobook PANDEMIC, Book III of the INFECTED Trilogy. If you haven’t read the first two books, INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS, do that first! We beseech thee! Get those books in print, as eBooks, or full-length audiobooks by visiting our INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS pages. Let’s get this party started—the first of forty epi…

Here it is Junkies: the final episode. What happens to Perry? To Dew? To Chelsea and her Mommy? How about General Ogden? Margaret and Clarence? And how about the great city of Detroit? Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu

The Motor City is once again the murder capital of the world as bullets fly, rockets fire, and corpses stack up like cordwood. General Ogden's men are fighting tooth and nail, extracting a harsh price for every inch of ground lost. Perry attempts to close in on Chelsea, but only minutes remain before her Angels begin pouring through the gate! Writt…

Planes explode, cities burn, guns fire, and blood flies. Chelsea Jewell will not be denied, she is hell-bent on opening the gate and allowing the Angels to come through. But can she stop The Boogeyman, aka Scary Perry Dawsey? Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu

The most bizarre interrogation you've ever seen, "the five-second rule," and Dew lays down the law with Margaret. The stage is set for Motor City carnage, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Pistons won back-to-back NBA titles. This episode is for you, Chuck Daley. Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set Entertainment…

The long, brutal final day of Contagious has begun. It should all be over, right? So why is Perry Dawsey hearing the voices again? And what are the voices telling him to do? Get ready for a shocker. Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu

A major character moves on to that gridiron in the sky. Margaret Montoya takes charge in Detroit, Dustin Climer spreads the Word of Chelsea and Perry gets his gun. That *can't* be good, can it? Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu

What do two all-beef patties, legos, ice cream on a stick, and cops all have in common? They are all part of cute little Chelsea's plans for a brighter tomorrow! Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu

Chelsea talks to her Daddy about meeting Jesus and to her Mommy about the things that need to be done. After addressing her family issues, she sets her sights on getting even with "The Boogeyman." Meanwhile, Dew tries to get Perry to face his fears head-on, and the Orbital realizes that its days of anonymity are finished. Written & Performed by Sco…

Margaret Montoya unleashes her frustration on Dew Phillips and Clarence Otto, General Charlie Ogden gets his priorities straight, and the city of Detroit welcomes a new visitor. Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu

Chelsea reached out to Perry, which stoked the violence at his core. Dustin Climer gets religion, while the Murray vs. Vanessa tension simmers towards a boiling point. Written & Performed by Scott Sigler Produced by Empty Set EntertainmentScott Sigler tarafından oluşturuldu