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Affliction Z · Book 1

Patient Zero

By L.T. Ryan

Soldiers have disappeared in southern Nigeria. Air Force pararescueman Sean Ryder joins a SEAL team sent to find them, but the rescue mission leads to a threat far larger than the missing unit. An experiment has gone wrong, and a deadly outbreak could spread beyond the region.

Inside an underground facility, Sean and team leader Turk must work out what they are facing and whether it can be stopped. Patient Zero opens Affliction Z at the beginning of the crisis, bringing military rescue action into a survival-horror story where the danger keeps changing the terms of the mission.

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Where This Book Fits

Patient Zero is Affliction Z Book 1. Continue with Abandoned Hope, then Descended in Blood. The opening Books 1–3 collection contains these same novels. This starter route covers the confirmed opening sequence; later-volume edition relationships are awaiting confirmation.

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