<p>Volume 3 in the <strong>Adventures of V</strong> series</p><p>A chic vampire, a glamorous black US president, a loony Bible-thumping vice president, a diabolical terrorist, a randy lawyer, a handsome captain, a gorgeous assistant, a beautiful Synthetic Individual, a recklessly brave girl reporter, a grizzled cameraman, a Bollywood princess, a bitter TV producer, a pompous anchorman, a kidnapped heiress, a stunning actress, an orphaned boy, all are swept up in a desperate epic struggle for survival against a spreading zombie pandemic.</p><p>The year is 2046. V is on the hunt for a mysterious renegade mass-murder hybrid, a steel-gray reptilian creature that has left a trail of blood from Texas to Vermont. Then V's attention is drawn to an even more pressing crisis - a probable terrorist attack against the president of the United States, to be carried out on the world's latest greatest luxury liner, the <em>Eden of the Seas</em>. </p><p>The president, a charismatic black TV star, Katherine du Bois Hughes, is scheduled to speak to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association during the maiden voyage of the <em>Eden. </em></p><p>During her speech, Katherine announces special legislation to defend <em>human species purity</em>. </p><p>She denounces alien-human <em>hybrids</em>, V's people. And she condemns, bioengineering creations, <em>Synthetic Individuals</em>, or SINs. She announces she will shortly propose laws to label, isolate, and eliminate them.</p><p>Just after Katherine's speech, a deadly biological weapon is released - via colorful party balloons launched from a passing yacht, <em>A Flight of Fancy</em>. </p><p>The balloons, caught up in <em>Eden</em>'s ventilation system, burst, releasing a virus, which instantly turns 2000 lawyers and 4000 other passengers and crew into cannibalistic zombies or vine-like, tentacular, voracious, semi-conscious plants. </p><p>V and a few survivors, including several hybrids, two twin teenage Chinese acrobats, Wang Fei and Wang Fang, and Marie-José Duval, a beautiful Parisian Synthetic Individual, or SIN, must save the president, and get her off the <em>Eden</em> before she too turns into a zombie.</p><p>Then, V must spirit the president to a safe refuge from which Katherine can take back control of America, because, in Washington, there has been a coup d'état.</p><p>The US vice president - tall, handsome, eloquent, Bible-thumping Joseph Humility Ebenezer Jackson - who was behind the biological attack and who has staged the coup d'état in Washington, intends to kill the president - she is "too soft on hybrids and SINs" - and destroy the <em>Eden</em>, and all those in it, using nuclear weapons if need be; he also plans to obliterate, with missiles, Sabrina Jacob's elegant research ship, <em>Andromeda II</em>, a symbol of the most advanced science - "diabolical Darwinian meddling with the Divine Order" - sailing near The Bahamas, and which, with its wealth of scientific expertise, has become the center of the anti-pandemic struggle. </p><p>But ...</p><p>The vice president is double-crossed by the creator of the zombie virus, a mysterious creature called the Puppet Master. </p><p>The zombie pandemic does not stay confined to the <em>Eden</em> - but the <em>Eden</em> - piloted by zombies controlled by the Puppet Master - crashes into Miami. The zombie virus spreads throughout Florida. It sweeps up, in its deadly onslaught, Samantha Andrews, a feisty TV reporter for the Volpe News Network, her cameraman, grizzled veteran of many wars, Charlie Parr, and Virginia Lily, a stunning star of B-movies, and Jake, an orphaned 11-year-old, and many others, all caught up in an onrushing turmoil of suffering and death. </p>
