{"product_id":"pandemic-book-1-party-balloons-9781999479053","title":"Pandemic Book 1: Party Balloons","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gilbert Reid\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Twin Rivers Productions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Twin Rivers Productions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fantasy - Epic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 3 in the \u003cstrong\u003eAdventures of V\u003c\/strong\u003e series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA chic vampire, a glamorous black US president, a loony Bible-thumping vice president, a diabolical terrorist, a randy lawyer, a handsome captain, a gorgeous assistant, a beautiful Synthetic Individual, a recklessly brave girl reporter, a grizzled cameraman, a Bollywood princess, a bitter TV producer, a pompous anchorman, a kidnapped heiress, a stunning actress, an orphaned boy, all are swept up in a desperate epic struggle for survival against a spreading zombie pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 2046. V is on the hunt for a mysterious renegade mass-murder hybrid, a steel-gray reptilian creature that has left a trail of blood from Texas to Vermont. Then V's attention is drawn to an even more pressing crisis - a probable terrorist attack against the president of the United States, to be carried out on the world's latest greatest luxury liner, the \u003cem\u003eEden of the Seas\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe president, a charismatic black TV star, Katherine du Bois Hughes, is scheduled to speak to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association during the maiden voyage of the \u003cem\u003eEden. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring her speech, Katherine announces special legislation to defend \u003cem\u003ehuman species purity\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe denounces alien-human \u003cem\u003ehybrids\u003c\/em\u003e, V's people. And she condemns, bioengineering creations, \u003cem\u003eSynthetic Individuals\u003c\/em\u003e, or SINs. She announces she will shortly propose laws to label, isolate, and eliminate them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust after Katherine's speech, a deadly biological weapon is released - via colorful party balloons launched from a passing yacht, \u003cem\u003eA Flight of Fancy\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe balloons, caught up in \u003cem\u003eEden\u003c\/em\u003e's ventilation system, burst, releasing a virus, which instantly turns 2000 lawyers and 4000 other passengers and crew into cannibalistic zombies or vine-like, tentacular, voracious, semi-conscious plants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV and a few survivors, including several hybrids, two twin teenage Chinese acrobats, Wang Fei and Wang Fang, and Marie-José Duval, a beautiful Parisian Synthetic Individual, or SIN, must save the president, and get her off the \u003cem\u003eEden\u003c\/em\u003e before she too turns into a zombie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, V must spirit the president to a safe refuge from which Katherine can take back control of America, because, in Washington, there has been a coup d'état.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe US vice president - tall, handsome, eloquent, Bible-thumping Joseph Humility Ebenezer Jackson - who was behind the biological attack and who has staged the coup d'état in Washington, intends to kill the president - she is \"too soft on hybrids and SINs\" - and destroy the \u003cem\u003eEden\u003c\/em\u003e, and all those in it, using nuclear weapons if need be; he also plans to obliterate, with missiles, Sabrina Jacob's elegant research ship, \u003cem\u003eAndromeda II\u003c\/em\u003e, a symbol of the most advanced science - \"diabolical Darwinian meddling with the Divine Order\" - sailing near The Bahamas, and which, with its wealth of scientific expertise, has become the center of the anti-pandemic struggle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vice president is double-crossed by the creator of the zombie virus, a mysterious creature called the Puppet Master. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe zombie pandemic does not stay confined to the \u003cem\u003eEden\u003c\/em\u003e - but the \u003cem\u003eEden\u003c\/em\u003e - piloted by zombies controlled by the Puppet Master - crashes into Miami. The zombie virus spreads throughout Florida. It sweeps up, in its deadly onslaught, Samantha Andrews, a feisty TV reporter for the Volpe News Network, her cameraman, grizzled veteran of many wars, Charlie Parr, and Virginia Lily, a stunning star of B-movies, and Jake, an orphaned 11-year-old, and many others, all caught up in an onrushing turmoil of suffering and death. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Twin Rivers Productions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45161541664919,"sku":"9781999479053","price":1971.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781999479053.webp?v=1767914696","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pandemic-book-1-party-balloons-9781999479053","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}