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Instead of closure, the general insists the first outbreak never truly ended: spores lingered, years came and went like remission, yet the plague remained active among humanity. His memoir frames eradication as a bedtime myth, contrasting quarantine optimism with the unstoppable persistence of death itself.","ALSO BY IAN DUNCAN  \nAVAILABLE FROM HAMMERDOWN PRESS The Cordyceps Trilogy:  \nCordyceps Cordyceps Resurgentis Cordyceps Victoriosis  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, businesses, organizations, and incidents either are the products of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2019 by Ian Duncan All rights reserved.  \n[www.IanDuncanBooks.com](www.IanDuncanBooks.com)[ ](www.IanDuncanBooks.com)Cover design by Jared Hall ISBN: 978-1-7342822-5-2  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number:2019920208  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Garrett, Amber, and Brandon, who never gave up.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n“We make much of the devil’s influence, I think, because we are scandalized by our own capacity. We ought to realize, by now, that we require little assistance in becoming diabolical. Man is his own Armageddon.”  \n—General Nicolaus Trubilinski  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \n—from the memoirs of General Nicolaus Trubilinski  \nTEN MILLION DIED. They died on their knees, coughing up the ragged fabric of their lungs, heads wreathed in spore dust fine as yellow smoke. They died at the heights to which Cordyceps compelled them to climb, bound by their own tape and rope and glue, held in place by improvised electrical wire and coat hangers and strips of clothing shredded with their own teeth.  \nThey died with their mouths open and their faces streaked with blood, the fruiting bodies disgorged from their eye sockets, curling upward to full height, a billion spores loosed in the wind.  \nThey died in mad pursuit of survivors, suffocating in the spores filling their lungs. They died in a hail of bullets and cannon fire, the fusillade I unleashed upon them, by direct order. The infected that swarmed the fence fell in waves, cut down by machine gun fire, their bodies jerking, snagged in the concertina wire.  \nNone of this, in particular, haunts me. What echoes in my mind is a simple phrase, one more complicated for the tantalizing possible world it places forever just out of my grasp:  \nI could have stopped it.  \nA swift and brutal response during the initial moments of the first outbreak in Florida—the unflinching annihilation of the entire peninsula by  \nnuclear bombardment—would have, I believe, spared the nation, the continent, and the world. But we did not, as a race, have the ability to conceptualize such a decision, much less the resolve to execute it. For all our Cold War bravado, men in key positions of our government were unable to consider scenarios vastly different from the ones they had rehearsed for so long.  \nLet my own case serve to demonstrate what might have happened to theman resolute enough to press that button, once the emotional shockwave swept over his society. Such a man would be vilified. A monster living among us. He would be haunted, as I am, by necessity. His would be the burden of a course of action he could never prove absolutely necessary, while mine is the necessity of a course proven absolutely lost.  \nI could have stopped it.  \nThe very notion of eradication, at this late hour, is nothing more than a bedtime story civilization tells itself to make sleep possible, when, at the very moment of their unconscious bliss, over their sloping rooftops and across the hastily erected barriers of the quarantine zone, climbers still rot at their heights and spores yet linger in the air.  \nThe truth about the Cordyceps outbreak has never been disclosed to the public, and unless this memoir survives the purge that will no doubt follow my death, it never will. The simple and horrifying fact is this: the first outbreak never ended. 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