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"The tie-in between The Zulu Virus Chronicles and Black Flagged Series is exceptionally well done. Black Flagged readers have seen the Zulu Virus in action before—but not like this. It's truly a living nightmare of thrills and twists."
"Steven has the research down like Crichton, the action scenes like Brad Thor and the suck-you-in writing style of Vince Flynn."
HOT ZONE (The Zulu Virus Chronicles Book 1)
A BLACK FLAGGED THRILLER SERIES SPIN-OFF
SOMETHING INSIDIOUS HAS ARRIVED--RIGHT IN THE HEARTLAND OF OUR NATION, TURNING NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR!
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.
Dr. Eugene Chang, a research scientist for a major pharmaceutical company makes a shocking discovery that might explain the spreading wave of illness and violence gripping the city.
Eric Larsen, leader of a top-secret, rapid-response unit, circles high above the Midwest, in an unmarked military transport. Mission still unknown, his team waits to parachute into the night.
WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, complete strangers from different walks of life will be forced to join together to survive the LIVING NIGHTMARE that has been unleashed on their city--AND THEIR COUNTRY.
This is their story.
WELCOME TO THE HOT ZONE!
A Black Flagged Series Spin Off? How is that possible and why haven’t I heard about this before? All good questions. The simple answer is that I had been waiting for the completion of the core Black Flagged series to draw any serious attention to the link between the books. Mostly because of spoilers (whoever appears here obviously survives the core series), but also because I enjoyed letting readers discover the links on their own. I’ve received hundreds of emails expressing the “pleasant surprise” of discovering familiar names and links to the Black Flagged books. Now that the core series is completed, it’s time to properly unveil the links.
The Zulu Virus Chronicles is named after the “zulu” virus introduced (created by rogue scientist Dr. Anatoly Reznikov) in REDUX (Black Flagged Book 2). “ZVC” takes place roughly a decade and a half after the core Black Flagged series ends in 2009 (fictional book time). The Zulu Virus Chronicles are a frightening look at a mass-scale bioweapons attack against America, perpetrated by domestic terrorists, told from a number of very different perspectives. The good, the bad and those caught in the crossfire.
For Black Flagged series fans, I have no doubt you will enjoy this spin off. Several Black Flag operatives show up in the series (2nd and 3rd book), having spent the past decade hunting down the last remnants of a terrorist organization they had previously spent most of their careers fighting. Unfortunately for them, and the rest of the United States, Dr. Reznikov’s research survived their best efforts to destroy it—once again falling into the wrong hands.
Welcome to the HOT ZONE, and the ZULU VIRUS CHRONICLES!
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- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 11 2017
- File size5044 KB
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An inexplicable wave of illness
Emergency rooms have been overrun by patients, most showing signs of neurological and cognitive impairment—some turning suddenly violent. The symptoms match a rare and lethal disease that affects less than 1 in 500,000 per year. In a single day, city emergency room doctors have seen more suspected cases of this rare disease than the world had seen the previous year.

A city falling apart
As infected citizens take to the streets with their erratic and violent behavior, the city's emergency responders are stretched to the breaking point. Ambulance crews and the police can no longer keep up with the never-ending flood of 911 calls. The city teeters of the edge of chaos and madness.

A government quarantine taken too far
Fleeing the city is no longer an easy option for the uninfected. The interstate surrounding the city has been designated a Federal Quarantine Boundary, enforced by local National Guard units. Beyond that, a far less forgiving quarantine line awaits. Escape from the Hot Zone will become more difficult by the hour-until it's all but impossible.
The Zulu Virus Chronicles - A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
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- ASIN : B073WGJBF3
- Publisher : Stribling Media (July 11 2017)
- Language : English
- File size : 5044 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 352 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #253,227 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #580 in Medical Thrillers
- #2,880 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #3,317 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Steven Konkoly is the Wall Street Journal and repeated #1 Amazon bestseller of over twenty thrillers.
Steven graduated from the United States Naval Academy, receiving a bachelor of science in English literature. He served the next eight years on active duty, traveling the world as a naval officer assigned to various Navy and Marine Corps units. His extensive journey spanned the globe, including a two-year tour of duty in Japan—and travel to more than twenty countries throughout Asia and the Middle East.
From enforcing United Nations sanctions against Iraq, as a maritime boarding officer in the Arabian Gulf, to directing aircraft bombing runs and naval gunfire strikes as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) assigned to a specialized Marine Corps unit, Steven's "in-house" experience with a wide range of regular and elite military units brings a unique authenticity to his thrillers.
He still wakes up at "zero dark thirty" to write for most of the day. When "off duty," he spends as much time as possible outdoors or travelling with his family--and dog.
Steven is an active member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) organizations.
You can contact Steven directly by email (stevekonkoly@striblingmedia.com) or through his blog (www.stevenkonkoly.com).
WORK BY STEVEN KONKOLY
DEEP SLEEP SERIES—Conspiracy/Espionage/Black Ops thrillers
"Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable. A modern day conspiracy thriller filled with twists and turns."
1.) Deep Sleep
2.) Coming Dawn (October 2022)
THE RYAN DECKER BOOKS—Action-Adventure/Vigilante/Black Ops/Conspiracy thrillers
"A heart-pumping thriller of betrayal, revenge, and conspiracy for fans of Tom Clancy and Lee Child."
1.) The Rescue
2.) The Raid
3.) The Mountain
4.) Skystorm
THE BLACK FLAGGED SERIES—Black Ops/Political/Conspiracy/Espionage thrillers
"A gritty, no-holds barred covert operations and espionage saga."
0.) INCEPTION (PREQUEL)
1.) ALPHA
2.) REDUX
3.) APEX
4.) VEKTOR
4.5) COVENANT
5.) OMEGA
THE ALEX FLETCHER BOOKS—Action-Adventure/Conspiracy/Dystopian thrillers
"A tense, thriller epic, chronicling the aftermath of an inconceivable attack on the United States."
1.) The Jakarta Pandemic
2.) The Perseid Collapse
3.) Event Horizon
4.) Point of Crisis
5.) Dispatches
THE FRACTURED STATE SERIES—Dystopian/Conspiracy/Near future techothrillers
"A near future conspiracy series set in a southwest United States on the verge of secession."
1.) Fractured State
2.) Rogue State
THE ZULU VIRUS CHRONICLES: A BLACK FLAGGED THRILLER SERIES SPIN OFF—Bioweapons/Conspiracy/Post-apocalyptic thrillers
"A modern thriller series based on the events surrounding an unthinkable bioweapons attack against the United States."
1.) Hot Zone
2.) Kill Box
3.) Fire Storm
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Likeable characters, well-written and an exciting storyline. As I work in an Emergency Department myself, I could really identify with that portion of the story...it certainly leaves a person wondering what if...
Really looking forward to reading the second one in the series!
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Several people are not infected and they try to leave the quarentined area - one is a scientist who may have the why and who is behind it and may also have a way to defeat the virus.
But leaving the infected area is not easy as they are hunted by the infected, the military and maybe others.
Time to buy the next installment.


