The Immortals by Tracy Hickman - USED

The United States in the year 2010 - ravaged by disease and slowly stifled by martial law. Though fear runs rampant across the land, one man, Michael Barris, dares to challenge the government's tightening grip. This powerful cautionary tale by one of today's most popular writers paints an engrossing portrait of the near future. A lethal virus known as V-CIDS strikes man, woman, and child without prejudice. Despite desperate efforts to control it, entire cities have succumbed. The panicked authorities have taken the drastic action of forming ERIS - Emergency Relocation & Isolation Service - and herding all the infected into specially designed internment camps. Into this prison stumbles Michael Barris, a wealthy interactive-television mogul with a controversial past. He is searching for his sick son, spending his fortune and his future for answers. What he finds is a carefully guarded nightmare - one that he helped to create. Inside the installation, mindless tasks performed under primitive conditions fill the inmates' days. Death hovers only a breath away. As Barris struggles to survive in this shadowy world, he comes to understand that reaching his son will be the second most difficult task he has ever undertaken. The first comes after he learns that the camps have a far more sinister agenda than the military is willing to admit - and Barris chooses to battle the forces that assault not only human life but the indomitable human spirit.

ISBN: 9780451454027