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Book Review of Germ: If You Breathe, It Will Find You

Germ: If You Breathe, It Will Find You
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Robert Liparulo gives us a genuinely terrifying thrill ride here, using a menace born in the racial hatred of the Third Reich, nurtured by a personal vendetta, and brought to life by 21st-century technology. And it's all the more frightening for being far too plausible.

The stakes here are nothing less than the control of a designer virus, keyed to the DNA of specific victims, about to be set loose on the public. Liparulo gets the maximum mileage out of it as his characters fight to stay alive long enough to unravel the mystery and eliminate the danger while being hunted by an implacable, almost superhuman assassin.

Four stars for this page-turner.