Atlanta, 2050. Science without ethics grips our near future.Research pathologist Dr. Avit Arceneaux, a harvested clone, interacts best with the dead. A midnight call rushes him to perform an autopsy on a young soldier inoculated with the latest breakthrough vaccine, meant to gift the recipient with functional immortality.
Instead, the soldier rotted from the inside out.
Avit raises the alarm, but Surgeon General Dr. Story Patout has as much political clout as scientific malevolence. The man is chaos in a white lab coat. Avit misses his hidden agenda and the Surgeon General releases the weaponized vaccine.
The result is global pandemic through mass immunization.
Avit tries to stop the mad scientist, but the Surgeon General traps him, subjecting him to a bioengineering experiment that permanently alters the young man's genetic identity. Avit is the perfect subject - a last generation clone.
Surviving the pandemic, Avit struggles with his new DNA in a world that has fallen to the devastating consequences of medical catastrophe.
Hunted by the military and every law enforcement agency that still exists, Avit must fight for a future he can't begin to imagine, let alone find a place in. He faces a last, profound question.
Is he an unwanted product of extreme science, or the next evolution of humanity?
The Last Plague offers a fast-paced, fresh take on the science fiction medical thriller with cataclysmic twists and turns and an alarming dystopia based on possibilities found in real medical research.
"I wrote The Last Plague a year before the Covid pandemic, the idea born from my experience in the medical field and the tragic history of yellow fever epidemics in New Orleans, my hometown." DCCrouch
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