OBEX

They aren’t dead. They’re just gone, and still walking. Fourteen months into the outbreak, Nate Kessler is building a vaccine in a college basement with equipment he stole and a list of failures that runs longer than his arm. He’s close. Closer than anyone alive. But the virus is mutating faster than he can chase it, the trial needs a human volunteer, and the man responsible for all of this is coming to take everything Nate has built. The science is real. The setbacks are worse. And every hour he spends getting it right is an hour somebody outside the fence doesn’t have.