Title: The Armageddon Virus
Author: Robert Gallant
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595418527
Pages: 242
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action/Adventure

Reviewed by: Tiffany Ezuma

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“The Armageddon Virus” serves as the second installment in Robert Gallant’s book series featuring the characters of Travis Weld and Chesney Barrett. The novel expands on the world of the first book, as Travis must stop the sale of a new deadly virus to a weapons dealer; if the sale of the virus isn’t stopped, it could spread and wreak havoc on the world.

Travis teams up again with Chesney Barrett, a beautiful, blonde grad student in Louisiana with a focus on environmental studies. Travis enlists Chesney to help track and report on a local drug factory that he believes is involved with the virus. But pretty soon, complications arise and someone murders Chesney’s best friend. She’s then sent undercover to Houston, where she tries to uncover the killer, who they believe to be the seller of the virus. Gallant does a good job in creating doubt and mystery about who the seller is, and from page to page you’re never sure who it may turn out to be. He weaves in different scientists who work as potential suspects but turn out to be red herrings.

Even with the twists and turns of the plot machinations, Chesney proves herself to be a very strong and capable character, since she is the one who does the bulk of the investigation in Houston. It’s nice when Travis turns up to help and guide her but for the most part, she is a fairly badass, action hero herself.

While “The Armageddon Virus” makes for a fun, fast-paced read, the fictional work will push the way readers think about the world we live in, and how science and technology interact with new forms of global terrorism. What if the scenario set up in the book did happen? What would we allow our governments to do to stop it? Because of the larger discussion points, this book would be perfect for discussing in a book club, as well as readers who typically seek out books with action-adventure.

Readers who are interested in the series, may want to start with the first book in the series, “Satan’s Stronghold,” to get a better sense of the characters and dynamics between them but it’s not too hard to jump into the second one by itself. Fans of sci-fi, thrillers, action, drama and intense suspense will enjoy “The Armageddon Virus” by Robert Gallant.

If you could go back far enough in your genealogy, you would find that your ancestors were viruses. Never underestimate what a virus can do. Travis Weld, leader of a clandestine government team pursuing terrorists, decodes a phone message from someone offering to sell a deadly new virus to an illicit weapons dealer. But who is the seller and what is the virus?Weld sends beautiful environmental graduate student Chesney Barrett to covertly probe the world of virology and viruses. Her search leads to a virology research company. Chesney encounters suspicious deaths, angry and ambitious virologists, and a longtime feud that may hold the key to identifying the virus. Each new clue generates contradictions. Each probing for answers intensifies the danger.But the ultimate adversary is the virus, more sophisticated and deadly than anyone imagined. Like a cunning serial killer, the elusive virus has chosen its next target. This time it will kill millions. Everyone it touches will die.This is the third novel in the series featuring government agent Travis Weld and environmental graduate student Chesney Barrett.
Robert Gallant has drawn on thirty years experience in technology to create the scenario for The Armageddon Virus. This is his third novel. Gallant and his wife live in Midland, Michigan.