Letters From Jack

By Martin Tuori

Escaping the apocalypse is one thing. Dealing with the survivors is something else.

Living in a fortified small town is the only life Dr. Jack Hansen has known since the pandemic struck, fifteen years ago. Having completed his medical training, he is given a mandatory first assignment. Leaving the relative safety and comfort of his home in Nebraska, he makes a dangerous cross-country trip to the Institute, a research bunker in the Appalachian Mountains.

Hoyt, with whom Jack is forced to work, has a huge chip on his shoulder. A bully and loudmouth, Hoyt takes perverse pleasure in giving the patients and his co-workers a hard time.

Rachel, a young doctor from Boston, has always kept to herself, avoiding the bullies and everyone else.

The pandemic was inevitable. Humanity had survived Influenza, SARS, Ebola, Zika and a dozen other deadly threats. XR2 is different. It spreads faster than any previous pandemic, leaving its victims barely alive but extremely dangerous. Cities are overrun and uninhabitable. There is no cure, no natural immunity, and no vaccine.

Dietary research at the Institute has demonstrated that the infected could be safely captured, contained and treated. This expensive shift in government policy has its critics, who believe that the infected should be tracked down and destroyed.

Jack thinks he's going to the Institute to contribute to the research, but the situation there is far from what he expects. Confined to safe but cramped quarters behind razor wire does nothing to ease tensions among the staff.

Jack is determined to do what's right, to make victims' lives a little easier.

GIXI, the multinational corporation chosen to manufacture and distribute the specialized diet, has its own plans.

It's just a two-year assignment, Jack keeps telling himself. But an awful lot can happen in two years.

Follow Jack on his journey of self-discovery, in this slow-burn sci-fi thriller.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1775070808
• ISBN13: 9781775070801
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Arlow & Associates Inc
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"