This is Books and Nachos, a podcast for those of us who find excitement in the pages of a good book.

Fiction and nonfiction, graphic novels, and more.

We are here to help you find something great to read.

They dropped from the atmosphere like microscopic snow,

billions of seeds, smaller than specks of dust,

spiraling down from the heavens.

A few survived and began to grow.

Now three people face a race against time.

Jew Phillips, an agent with a classified unit of the CIA, and Margaret Montoya, a government biologist, must try to stop a modern plague that drives its victims to insanity, murder and suicide.

And Perry Dorsey, an ex-footballer in a dead-end job,

must race to find a cure for the rash that has appeared on his arm, and his back, and his neck,

and which is getting bigger. And then the voices start.

Hi there, book fans, my name's Steve, and on this episode of Books and Nachos, I'll be reviewing the novel, Infected, by Scott Sigler.

Before I get to the book, a little bit about the author just in case you're not familiar with his work.

Scott Carl Sigler is a best-selling horror author, with a big difference.

He wrote his first monster story called Tentacles

at the age of eight before going on to study journalism and marketing at college in Michigan.

What's different about that, I hear you ask? Well, his first novel, Earthcore, was published in

2001 as a promotional e-book, and soon picked up by Time Warner, who planned to put it in print.

However, the post-9-11 slump meant it never happened, and that not back is what started

Scott's rise to success.

In 2005, he released the novel as the world's first podcast-only novel.

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