***HOT ZONE (BOOK 1) FREE UNTIL THE END OF NEW YEARS DAY! KILL BOX (BOOK 2) HALF PRICE!*** "Steven has the research down like Crichton, the action scenes and gun knowledge like Brad Thor, the character development of Clancy and the suck-you-in writing style of Vince Flynn"--Amazon reviewer (2017)"You will lose sleep reading this book...Non-stop action! This book grabs you from the beginning and won't let go."--Amazon reviewer (2017)HOT ZONE: Book One in THE ZULU VIRUS CHRONICLESSOMETHING INSIDIOUS HAS ARRIVED--RIGHT IN THE HEARTLAND OF OUR NATION.Dr. Lauren Hale, a new hospital resident, is nearly killed by a raving mad emergency room patient, in a senseless, unprovoked attack.Officer David Olson, veteran cop and former Marine, returns from a father-son camping trip to discover that his ex-wife has vanished under bizarre circumstances, and his police department is on the verge of collapse.Jack and Emma Harper, a young, upwardly mobile couple, find their hip city neighborhood rapidly descending into madness.Dr. Eugene Chang, a research scientist for a major pharmaceutical company makes a shocking discovery that might explain the spreading wave of illness and violence gripping the city.Eric Larsen, leader of a top-secret, rapid-response unit, circles high above the Midwest, in an unmarked military transport. Mission still unknown, his team waits to parachute into the night.WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, complete strangers from different walks of life will be forced to join together to survive the LIVING NIGHTMARE that has been unleashed on their city--AND THEIR COUNTRY.This is their story.WELCOME TO THE HOT ZONE!