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An incurable pandemic. A crumbling society. A love story turning psycho.
When a mutated strain of “Zombie Deer” jumps to humans, it unleashes a wave of personality changes as it invades the brain. With a long incubation period, many people are carrying the prion and awaiting the incurable, untreatable disease to break out in them. Panic triggers total societal collapse and martial law is declared. To escape the militarized “health squads” imprisoning carriers in gulags, tech writer Zoe Ohrbach flees into the Mojave Desert with her infected lover, Brian, chasing rumors of a desert sanctuary.
Instead, they are captured by a cultish government facility executing radical, horrific medical experiments in search of a cure. To orchestrate a breakout for Brian, Zoe must play along with her creepy hosts, entangling herself in a dangerous romance with a brilliant evolutionary biologist.
But when the cage doors finally shatter, Zoe is left stranded in a scorching wasteland with a terrifying reality: the disease has emerged, and the man she loves may have transformed into a maniacal stranger—or perhaps a radical experiment has saved him.
The Deer War is a gripping dystopian sci-fi medical thriller