Jenna Podjasek, M.D., hits the scene with her debut character Dr. Mallory Hayes with death and carnage in Particles in the Air. Hayes dashingly introduces herself in this high intensity bio-terror thriller as a great physician/researcher from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, working with the deadliest viruses the earth has ever seen.
While one of the most tragic natural disasters strikes on the west coast of the United States, an already full-fledged operation of terroristic proportions is ongoing in Sweden, about to cause unkempt chaos and disorder. Gene Therapist, Dr. Erik Lindgren, is advancing his work rapidly in the Northern European country when his personal debts start to escalate past the point of coming back. As if his research isn’t stressful enough, Lindgren watches his woman walk away after an unfortunate domestic violence situation. Now with no job, no woman, and no income, Lindgren is forced to make a decision that will cost him everything.
Hayes links up with the Army National Guard to assist in the care and comfort of the refugees and displaced people after the earthquake and tsunami unfortunately cause havoc on California’s coastline. As people start showing up with minor injuries and common issues, Hayes helps support and boost the physician’s staff as the Army’s Medical Corps when anomalies start becoming more and more frequent and carrying death in tow.
Hayes utilizes her extensive experience in the CDC to help pinpoint what issues are more than just the common cold as more and more people are showing up dead with immunosuppressed symptoms. Battling an already violent situation with an unfaithful man, an extraordinary disease spreading like wildfire, and herself potentially being infected, Hayes must fight through to help find a cure and stop one of the worst bioterrorism attacks the world has ever seen.
Jenna Podjasek turns to her immunology and doctoral background to give a very detailed and frightening tale of terror that has America falling apart. Her intense and extensive level of knowledge of viral and bacterial diseases fearfully creates an uneasiness that will leave you breathless. With a host of animated characters to help support the main plot, Podjasek also shows just how easily the spread of something so inconsequential and invisible can cause such drastic consequences. Knowing just a small portion of what she has seen and researched, you are sure to be easily terrified as the martyrdom of some very anti-American cohorts create chaos on a global scale.
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