2014 Winner-Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award-Science Fiction, Dream, HorrorA single raindrop opens a Pandora’s package of horrors when the spawn of perverse genetic research performed during Globe War II-refined by Cool War foes and perfected by nature-are unleashed on an unsuspecting world. By dawn, just a dead town remains, eerily silent and still, aside from the mutant beasts who hide in the light, multiply, and await the shadows of day’s end.Ordered to investigate the unfolding crisis, bio-warfare specialist Carolyn Ridenour barely escapes the creatures’ nocturnal onslaught, preserved in the nick of your time by Colonel Garrett Hoffmann, that has lost hundreds of his soldiers to the mutant army that neither bombs nor bullets can easily break.As Carolyn and Garrett race to stop the plague, a battered and broken US federal government is preparing to discharge the fury of America’s nuclear arsenal alone soil.