Pandemic Book 1: Party Balloons: 3 (The Adventures of V)

Volume 3 in the Adventures of V seriesA chic vampire a glamorous black US president a loony Bible-thumping vice president a diabolical terrorist a randy lawyer a handsome captain a gorgeous assistant a beautiful Synthetic Individual a recklessly brave girl reporter a grizzled cameraman a Bollywood princess a bitter TV producer a pompous anchorman a kidnapped heiress a stunning actress an orphaned boy all are swept up in a desperate epic struggle for survival against a spreading zombie pandemic.The year is 2046. V is on the hunt for a mysterious renegade mass-murder hybrid a steel-gray reptilian creature that has left a trail of blood from Texas to Vermont. Then Vs attention is drawn to an even more pressing crisis - a probable terrorist attack against the president of the United States to be carried out on the worlds latest greatest luxury liner the Eden of the Seas. The president a charismatic black TV star Katherine du Bois Hughes is scheduled to speak to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association during the maiden voyage of the Eden. During her speech Katherine announces special legislation to defend human species purity. She denounces alien-human hybrids Vs people. And she condemns bioengineering creations Synthetic Individuals or SINs. She announces she will shortly propose laws to label isolate and eliminate them.Just after Katherines speech a deadly biological weapon is released - via colorful party balloons launched from a passing yacht A Flight of Fancy. The balloons caught up in Edens ventilation system burst releasing a virus which instantly turns 2000 lawyers and 4000 other passengers and crew into cannibalistic zombies or vine-like tentacular voracious semi-conscious plants. V and a few survivors including several hybrids two twin teenage Chinese acrobats Wang Fei and Wang Fang and Marie-José Duval a beautiful Parisian Synthetic Individual or SIN must save the president and get her off the Eden before she too turns into a zombie.Then V must spirit the president to a safe refuge from which Katherine can take back control of America because in Washington there has been a coup détat.The US vice president - tall handsome eloquent Bible-thumping Joseph Humility Ebenezer Jackson - who was behind the biological attack and who has staged the coup détat in Washington intends to kill the president - she is too soft on hybrids and SINs - and destroy the Eden and all those in it using nuclear weapons if need be; he also plans to obliterate with missiles Sabrina Jacobs elegant research ship Andromeda II a symbol of the most advanced science - diabolical Darwinian meddling with the Divine Order - sailing near The Bahamas and which with its wealth of scientific expertise has become the center of the anti-pandemic struggle. But ...The vice president is double-crossed by the creator of the zombie virus a mysterious creature called the Puppet Master. The zombie pandemic does not stay confined to the Eden - but the Eden - piloted by zombies controlled by the Puppet Master - crashes into Miami. The zombie virus spreads throughout Florida. It sweeps up in its deadly onslaught Samantha Andrews a feisty TV reporter for the Volpe News Network her cameraman grizzled veteran of many wars Charlie Parr and Virginia Lily a stunning star of B-movies and Jake an orphaned 11-year-old and many others all caught up in an onrushing turmoil of suffering and death.