Code 103 Redacted

Thirty-six children walked into school on a Saturday morning. By the lunch bell, the screaming had stopped. That was the wrong part. A bioengineered pathogen has sealed St. Jude's High School from the inside. It doesn't just infect. It networks. It learns. One frequency, one hive mind, small bodies moving with machine precision behind faces their parents would still recognise.An off-the-books tactical unit is sent in with an impossible order: kill the signal before it reaches a city of twenty million. And one rule that will break them.No lethal force. Every monster in that building is somebody's kid, and every one of them has to go home. They have until dawn to bring them all back. One name at a time.But the deeper the unit goes, the clearer it becomes that this outbreak was never an accident, the school was never the target, and whoever built this has been counting on their mercy from the beginning.Code 103 Redacted: Patient Zer0 is a biopunk horror-thriller for readers of Jonathan Maberry's Patient Zero and viewers of Train to Busan and Black Mirror - where the real monster isn't the infection. It's the people who engineered it, and everyone who looked away.The outbreak has a message for you: INNOCENCE CAN BE CONTAGIOUS