Virus (Onyx) [Paperback]

Peter Caine (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 333 pages
• Publisher: Onyx (September 5, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451401441
• ISBN-13: 978-0451401441
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,935,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Book Review of "The Virus" By Eddie Sloyan, October 28, 2001

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Mr.Francesco Raphael Galardo of the Catskills (Catskill, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Virus (Onyx) (Paperback)

A really good book I have read that will make readers want to read more of his books is called "The Virus" by Peter Caine. It is a book about a terrible virus that is spread by using needles, and it must be stopped now or it will never be stopped.
It all began with a plane accident where people needed blood. Other people donated it to the people that needed it and one person got this terrible and horrifing virus called HIV-4. It is like HIV but a lot worse, and there's no cure for it. A doctor named, Clayton Husch is with this clan or gang thattook the blood and they go around injecting it in to people so that they will pass it on to other people.
A detective named William Grant in Brisbane during a hot humid summer, is trying to find out who is doing this terrifying thing to young and old people in this town. The Brisbane police and this detective do everything to try to stop it but it just keeps getting worse. If they don't stop it soon the whole country will get it and soon, the WHOLE WORLD!!!
The author used great sensory language in this book, so that the reader could really imagine what is going on and almost feel the things he talks about. An example would be, when the bad HIV-4 people went to a party with 8 highschool students on a beach, they made the kids "lay down on the soft damp sand with it smushing in their faces." While the bad guys injected them with HIV-4. Also when he said that the needle was like a long stinger on a bee and it felt a lot worse than a bee sting. It felt like a horn of a rhino stabbing you.
I think that it is a great book, I would read it again and I would encourage a lot of people who like mysteries,action and suspense in a book to read it. If so than this is a book for you.
I would have to say that this is the best book I have read, since "Lord of the Flies." It is a good book from the beging to the end. It has made me want to read mor of Peter Caines books, and I will.