Purgatory by Victor Methos

A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK… The most lethal virus in history has begun its spread to the mainland United States. Fast-spreading and with the ability to take over the host's immune system, the pathogen seems unstoppable.

After his brother's mysterious disappearance, Patrick Russell is told it was a routine drowning. But he feels something much more terrifying is at work. He believes that a rogue creature has risen from the depths and is terrorizing the local beach community. In order to protect the tourist dollars flooding in, the city's politicians and business leaders are unwilling to acknowledge the creature's existence; leaving Patrick as the sole voice of reason as the bodies pile up. Risking his life and his sanity, he sets out to uncover a monster that knows neither fear nor compassion, and that has developed a taste for killing…

THE DEADLIEST DISEASE IN HISTORY . . . A lethal pathogen appears on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control is handed the case and assigned to investigate its containment and origins.

Dr. Samantha Bower witnessed the obliteration of human society. Entire continents decimated by a virus of unknown origins. Only a bleak world of ash and blood remains. One in which the survivors fundamentally change what it means to be human.

With money and hope in short supply, newly minted attorney Brigham Theodore decides it’s time to lower his standards. He joins a seedy fly-by-night firm in Salt Lake City out of desperation. After he loses his first case a speeding ticket he’s convinced his career is over. But to his shock, his boss hands him a slightly more complex case: capital murder…

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag—cars, houses, women. That’s why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children’s medicine. While the official story is that a psycho tampered with bottles, the boy’s mother believes something much more sinister is at work…and the trail leads right back to the pharmaceutical company…

A corto di soldi e ambizione, il giovane avvocato Brigham Theodore decide di farsi assumere in un piccolo studio legale a Salt Lake City. Dopo la delusione per la sconfitta in tribunale durante il suo primo processo è convinto che la sua carriera sia finita. Ma il suo capo gli affida inaspettatamente un caso delicatissimo. La cliente di Brigham è Amanda Pierce, accusata di aver sparato all'uomo che ha rapito, torturato e ucciso la sua bambina di sei anni. Una giuria potrebbe anche simpatizzare per lei a causa del suo terribile dolore, ma la legge non è mai stata tollerante con chi si fa giustizia da solo, e la pena che pende sul capo della donna è l'esecuzione. L'accusa, come se non bastasse, è in mano a Vince Dale, il procuratore che non ha mai perso una causa..