EDITORIAL REVIEW:***The high adventure of James Rollins combines with the gripping suspense of Scott Sigler in this second installment in the Chess Team Series***A genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and *contagious *strain of the disease, the Chess TeamKing, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishopare assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new strain: the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam. Surrounded by Vietnam War era landmines, harsh terrain and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a grueling battle in the humid jungle.Pursued by VPLA Death Volunteers, Vietnam’s Special Forces unit, the team’s flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret...a primal secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globeeven as it threatens both the mission and their lives.

Instinct (Chess Team Adventure, #2)

Robinson, Jeremy

St. Martin's ; Melia [distributor

Worth Publishers, Incorporated

Thomas Dunne Books

St. Martin's Press

Wadsworth

Chess Team adventure, New York, Godalming, 2011

1st ed., New York, New York State, 2010

United States, United States of America

First Edition, PS, 2010

"Thomas Dunne books."

<p><P><b><i>The high adventure of James Rollins combines with the gripping suspense of Scott Sigler in this second installment in the Chess Team Series <P></b></i>A genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and <i>contagious </i>strain of the disease, the Chess Team&#8212;King, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop&#8212;are assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new strain&#58; the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam. Surrounded by Vietnam War era landmines, harsh terrain and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a grueling battle in the humid jungle. <P>Pursued by VPLA Death Volunteers, Vietnam&#8217;s Special Forces unit, the team&#8217;s flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret...a primal secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globe&#8212;even as it threatens both the mission and their lives.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Robinson&rsquo;s slam-bang second Chess Team thriller (after Pulse) opens in 1995 in Vietnam&rsquo;s Annamite Mountains, where Dr. Anthony Weston, a cryptozoologist, is studying a strange tribe of protohumans. When a pack of the creatures attacks Weston, one of them decides he&rsquo;d make a tasty snack (&ldquo;he could taste the decaying flesh of some previous meal that clung to its two-inch-long canines&rdquo;). Fourteen years later, Jack Sigler, head of the elite Chess Team, is searching for the source of a deadly plague known as the Brugada syndrome, which has stricken the new U.S. president. Jack (call sign &ldquo;King&rdquo;) and his team members&mdash;Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Pawn&mdash;are soon in Vietnam on the trail of a cure. There they find a vast mountain hideout with a city built of bones. Robinson, who&rsquo;s been criticized for writing stories that are too much like video games, has come up with a wildly inventive yarn that reads as well on the page as it would play on a computer screen. (Apr.)</p>

The high adventure of James Rollins combines with the gripping suspense of Scott Sigler in this second installment in the Jack Sigler Thriller A genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and contagious strain of the disease, the Chess TeamKing, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishopare assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam. Surrounded by Vietnam War era landmines, harsh terrain and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a grueling battle in the humid jungle. Pursued by VPLA Death Volunteers, Vietnams Special Forces unit, the teams flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret...a primal secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globeeven as it threatens both the mission and their lives.

A genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and contagious strain of the disease, the Chess Team - King, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop - are assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new strain: the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam. Surrounded by Vietnam War era landmines, harsh terrain and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a gruelling battle in the humid jungle. Pursued by VPLA Death Volunteers, Vietnam's Special Forces unit, the team's flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret ... a primal secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globe - even as it threatens both the mission and their lives

The president of the United States is dead—assassinated by a weaponized strain of the Brugada Syndrome, a genetic disease that kills without symptom. Without warning. The infected fall over dead, their healthy hearts stopped. Thankfully, the fast actions of the Secret Service revive the President. But the assassination attempt was just the beginning. The contagious new strain spreads silently across the United States. Within weeks, the human race will be on the brink of extinction.
The coming pandemic thrusts Jack Sigler, call sign King, and his “Chess Team”—Queen, Rook, Bishop and Knight—into a frantic search for the disease’s origin, and hopefully, a vaccine. Accompanying them are Sara Fogg, a CDC disease detective and Somi Syha, an undercover CIA field agent in the remote region the team must infiltrate—Vietnam’s Annamite mountain range.

2025-02-04