The Unrecovered

By Len M. Ruth

The virus doesn't kill you. The smile does.

Forty-eight-year-old recluse Sarah Sampson thought her father died in Vietnam. She was wrong.

As a strange new flu devastates the country-leaving only grinning corpses-a breaking news clip shatters Sarah's reality: her father, alive. He's the only known person to survive the infection.

Sarah and her K-9 companions must flee their Montana ranch and cross a fractured America to find the man who vanished fifty years ago. How did he survive? Why didn't he come home? And can she reach him before she, too, begins to smile?

In Washington, D.C., Dr. Carl Parks believes he's treating a kindly elderly man-until his patient begins mumbling about a government coverup, experimental treatments... and a cure. But a stroke locks the antidote inside a damaged mind. Can Carl tease the truth from his patient's fractured memory before the country slips past saving?

Catch the flu, feel the joy, die smiling.

A character-driven, multi-POV pandemic thriller for fans of Station Eleven, The Stand, and Contagion.

Buy The Unrecovered and discover the moment everything changed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C1291ZHX
• ISBN13: 9798987657409
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Ruthless Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"