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In a world where the oldest hunger awakens...
When black-market trader Viktor Kozlov accepts a cursed delivery, he becomes Patient Zero of the Manonegravirus-a vampiric plague woven from Hebrew demons, Babylonian blood magic, and cutting-edge bioweapons. Now, transforming into something neither alive nor dead, Viktor must navigate:
• A body rebelling against itself-muscles reforged for hunting, eyes seeing ultraviolet lies, a thirst that drowns reason.
• A psychologist, Dr. Liora Valeska, who dissects his mind even as her own dark past claws its way to the surface.
Global nightmares made flesh-Manananggals severing torsos in Manila, Jiangshi hopping through Beijing labs, Strigoi nobility feasting in Moscow's underworld.
As the virus spreads, the boundaries of science and myth dissolve. The infected develop hive-mind whispers. Ancient vampires stir from century-long hibernation. And a secret cabal-The Black Vein Covenant-manipulates the pandemic, believing vampirism is the next stage of human evolution.
But evolution tastes like blood.
Viktor's friends-a skeptical doctor, a conspiracy-obsessed writer, and an HR manager with too many missing employees-become unlikely allies in a war against:
• Their own decaying humanity
• Creatures who remember the walls of Babylon
• A god that sleeps in the thyroid gland
The feast has begun.
Will you be the diner... or the dish?