{"id":1583,"date":"2014-04-12T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2014-04-12T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T19:30:42","slug":"the-jihad-virus-under-re-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/12\/the-jihad-virus-under-re-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jihad Virus Under Re-Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JihadVirusCov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JihadVirusCov-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Jihad Virus cover\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JihadVirusCov-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JihadVirusCov-673x1024.jpg 673w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JihadVirusCov.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>Next up, another Peyton McKean medical thriller. Actually, this was my first thriller, published ten years ago. I&#8217;m revamping it a little to bring the writing style up-to-date and to adjust the timeframe to modern realities like Osama bin Laden&#8217;s death and other global changes.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the story remains the same. Terrorists have crossed the border from Canada into the US, and the only clue is a Customs agent who comes down with smallpox. Not just any old strain of smallpox, mind you, but something new and deadly.<\/p>\n<p>Call in Dr. Peyton McKean, &#8220;The Greatest Mind Since Sherlock Holmes.&#8221; Maybe he can trace the lethal microbe&#8217;s whereabouts and create a vaccine to contain it, before it breaks out into a plague the likes of which have not been seen since the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve begun a revision of the manuscript in anticipation of releasing the novel as an ebook and paperback sometime within the next several months.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if you&#8217;re itching to get your hands on a Peyton McKean thriller, try <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/LandingPagePM.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Neah Virus<\/a>, already available in ebook and paperback formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call in Dr. Peyton McKean, &#8220;The Greatest Mind Since Sherlock Holmes.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/12\/the-jihad-virus-under-re-construction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[66,226,53,281,5],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-peyton-mckean","tag-ebook","tag-medical-thriller","tag-mystery","tag-paperback","tag-peyton-mckean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}