Riddle does a fantastic job of creating a riveting plot with multiple twists along the way. The alien intentions are made clear and contain both benign and malignant actions as we learn that two different philosophical approaches have been driving human evolution and development. The plague is racing out of control and Dorian has gone rogue relative to the Imari. David and Kate are moving in separate tracks for the first half. The time dilation effects and name changes have been muted for this installment and so the story is easier to follow. The Atlantis Plague follows immediately on from where The Atlantis Gene left off. She soon discovers that the history of human evolution is not what it seems-and setting it right may require a sacrifice she never imagined.Ī well executed reinterpretation of history Kate's journey takes her across the barren wastelands of Europe and northern Africa, but it's her research into the past that takes her where she never expected to go. The answer may lie in understanding pivotal events in human history-events when the human genome mysteriously changed. Now humanity's last hope is to find a cure, and Kate alone holds the key to unraveling the mystery surrounding the Atlantis Plague. With control of the world population hanging in the balance, the Orchid Alliance and the Immari descend into open warfare. The Immari envision a world populated by the genetically superior survivors-a new human race, ready to fulfill its destiny. Immari International offers a different approach: do nothing. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.

Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. The remainder devolve.Īs the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Nearly a billion people are dead-and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction.

A PANDEMIC 70,000 YEARS IN THE MAKING WILL CHANGE HUMANITY.FOREVER.

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