Creature Files

When an earthquake strikes downtown Denver, far from the nearest active fault system, the USGS dispatches Dr. Dayna Raines and an emergency response team to investigate. They discover that the epicenter corresponds to a decommissioned deep injection well once used by the U.S. Army to dispose of chemical weapons, which have eroded the earth and created the unstable cavern system responsible for the seismic activity.

Some fates are worse than death. When doctors volunteering in the remote jungles of Sierra Leone find a troop of dead baboons, they fear they’ve stumbled upon a virus capable of causing a catastrophic spillover event. By the time their desperate pleas for help reach CERF, a covert unit formed to combat biological nightmares, it’s already too late. Satellite images reveal bodies littering the streets of a nearby village… only no known pathogen is able to kill so quickly. Thrust into leading an organization she barely understands, Dr.