The Silicate Virus

In a world where sound can kill, silence is the only thing keeping you alive.

Five years after the Fall, the streets belong to the Chimes-once-human creatures transformed by a mysterious catastrophe. Blind and relentless, they hunt through sound, turning every footstep, whispered word, and shattered piece of glass into a potential death sentence.

Elias Vance has survived by following one rule: never make a sound you can't escape.

Then he sees a boy surrounded by the infected.

The boy doesn't run. He opens his mouth-and the monsters stop.

His name is Silas. His strange ability has made him the target of the Directorate, a ruthless organization determined to turn the surviving world into something it can control. Commander Graves believes the boy could be the key to a new kind of power. And he is willing to sacrifice almost anything to obtain it.

Elias only wants to keep Silas alive.

But the deeper they venture into a shattered landscape of abandoned cities, desperate survivors, and hidden experiments, the harder it becomes to distinguish protection from captivity-and survival from surrender.

The boy's voice can change the behavior of the infected.

But no one truly understands what happens when he uses it.

And the people hunting him are prepared to find out.

THE SILICATE VIRUS is a gripping post-apocalyptic science-fiction horror novel about survival, dangerous discoveries, impossible choices, and the fragile bonds that remain when the world has fallen apart.

The deadliest weapon in this world may be the one thing everyone is desperate to control.