Coincidentally, Neil’s brother, Paul Johns, spends a lot of time in the Amazon Rainforest. On one of his first days on the job, he breaks an unbreakable code that seems to be coming from the middle of the Amazon Rainforest. His father, currently suffering from Alzheimer's, was a codebreaker and Neil wants to follow in his footsteps. Neil Johns has always wanted to work for the NSA. Knowing this, (a massive fungus over a gazillion-square-miles in size) sets to work defeating us. The stage is set on the very first page: an ominous passage that explains how a single, vast, ancient organism within the Amazon Rainforest has realized that humans exist. There is code-breaking, betrayal, intrigue, a nasty fungus-in short everything you need for a tip-top end-of-the-world contagion catastrophe. The Genius Plague, by David Walton, is a very well-written thriller which delves into the question of what does it mean to be human, and is there a better way? Universal truths are put to the test as the action whips back and forth from the offices of the NSA to South America and back.
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