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There are only two choices in the war for the nano. You can fight and have a slight chance of victory, or you can not fight and slowly slip into madness. The battlefield is the human brain, and the cost of losing this battle could mean the end of the world as you know it. With fast pace action, a storyline filled with insanity and conspiracy, and a love story of two opposites brought together by this war, Michael Grant’s BZRK is something to experience.

Have you ever had that feeling that you’ve done everything you could possibly do? Emperor Mollusk knows just how you feel; he has destroyed and conquered planets, invented every kind of death ray and doomsday device imaginable, and is the former Warlord of Earth. With retirement in full swing and the contentment of exploring the reaches of science, the Emperor can look for other ways to satisfy his constant need for challenge. But, when an Atlantese assassin team comes knocking on his door, the Emperor finds out that retirement won’t be as peaceful as he thought.

As a terrible disease rips through the United States Army and its medical personnel, a team of highly trained scientists head into Cueva de Luz, a super cave where moonmilk, an extremophile that lives in the depths of this cave and the only possible hope for curing this disease, is said to be held. As time passes, the journey for the five scientists becomes increasingly difficult; sheer cliffs and flooded tunnels block their path. Stopping this disease becomes much less of a clear cut reality, as mystery and suspicion envelope both the mission team and how the disease really came to be. If you like fast-paced thrillers, then The Deep Zone by James M. Tabor should be on your reading list.