The agents use a week-long sleep study as a cover to remove trackers and self-destruct devices implanted in Georgia's body, but a mole exposes the EIS team. She also discovers she is in Seattle, and other Georgia clones have been created, including a less mentally accurate but more compliant version for use against Shaun. With the help of Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) undercover agents, Georgia learns she is a 97 percent match to the mind of the original Georgia and is intended as a 'showroom model' for resurrection through cloning. The team, minus Maggie, breaks in and set up a remote-access Wi-Fi hotspot, but their escape is hampered by a security alert.Īfter dying, Georgia awakens as a prisoner in a CDC facility and quickly concludes that she is a clone. He agrees to help them disappear with new identities if they help steal information from the Seattle CDC facility. Disheartened, Shaun and Rebecca head north to Seattle, where Maggie and Mahir have contacted the identity forger, the Monkey. Abbey tasks Shaun and Rebecca with travelling to zombie-infested Florida and recovering live mosquitoes for study, but when they head back to Berkeley, California to meet with Shaun's adoptive parents, they are lured into a trap and barely escape the CDC. Abbey's zombie research while hiding out from the CDC with the rest of the After the End Times team: Rebecca Atherton, Mahir Gowda, Maggie Garcia, and Alaric Kwong.

Shaun Mason, having discovered his immunity to the virus, is helping with Dr. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the agency responding to the zombie virus and responsible for public health and safety, is actually creating new substrains (culminating in a mosquito-transmitted variant released at the end of Deadline), killing off those developing immune responses (including Georgia, who was assassinated during the events of Feed), and frustrating research into a cure. Over the preceding books, they, along with their colleagues at the After The End Times website, have uncovered a widespread conspiracy. The novel is written from the perspectives of Georgia and Shaun Mason, siblings and blogger-reporters.

Most humans reside in controlled zones, and blogs are now the primary source of news and entertainment. Kellis-Amberlee is a normally beneficial virus that, on the death of any host mammal over 40 pounds (18 kg), 'goes live' or 'amplifies', and turns them into a zombie. It was published Jand preceded by Feed (2010) and Deadline (2011), and followed by ‘’ Feedback’’ (2016).īlackout is set several decades after the zombie apocalypse, the Rising. Blackout is the third book in the Newsflesh series of science fiction/ horror novels set after a zombie apocalypse, written by Seanan McGuire under the pen name Mira Grant, and published by Orbit Books.

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