Dead Protocol

Matthew Ashcroft has a problem. He’s been lying to his employers, falsifying research reports, misappropriating company funds, and secretly financing an experiment that could either revolutionise medicine—or put him in prison. Now an auditor is coming. With days to produce something worth saving his career, Matt does what he does best: ignores the rules. Three patients.One experimental treatment.No authorisation. At first, it works. Paralysed limbs begin to move. Damaged nerves repair themselves. Years of impossible research suddenly become the medical breakthrough of the century. Then the fever starts. The patients become violent. A nurse is savagely bitten. A security guard disappears. And Matt discovers that Dr Singh's microscopic machines haven't simply learned how to repair the human body. They've learned how to keep it moving after death. With his estranged teenage sister trapped at the heart of the experiment and an auditor determined to uncover everything he's done, Matt activates the company's emergency containment protocol. The island is sealed. Communications are cut. Nobody gets on. Nobody gets off. Matt has spent his entire life manipulating people, breaking rules and ensuring someone else takes the blame. This time, there may not be anyone left to blame. And somewhere across the water, something has already reached the mainland.