Author: michaelmcbride

“McBride writes with the perfect mixture of suspense and horror that keeps the reader on edge.” —Examiner IT LIVES. In a research hangar in Virginia, a Unit 51 team studies an ancient but long-dormant virus that can transform human physiology—and turn it into something else. . . IT MUTATES. In the Amazon rainforest, a newly evolving life form known as Subject Z acquires the ability to think … conceptually, build elaborate traps, create new carriers—and spawn a new race . . . IT SPREADS. In Mexico and Turkey, the men and women of Unit 51 race to uncover a global…

Four teenagers awaken in a scorched cornfield with no memory of how they got there. All they know is that there were five of them when they found the carcass of the mutilated cow.Forty years later, Eric Devlin sends a cryptic email to the other three survivors: I remember everything.Karl Doering has spent the majority of his life trying to understand what happened that night and learn the fate of … of his missing friend. He responds to the mysterious message and finds that Eric has killed himself in a decrepit barn, behind which is a cornfield filled with mutilated…

Scientists gather at a secret research station in Antarctica to investigate the discovery of a lost civilization. But when disaster strikes at the isolated facility, an ancient horror rises again… “Satisfyingly slow-building” (Publishers Weekly).