The Code Within : Fragments of Truth

Book excerpt: 2014. San Antonio. Awakened in a desolate wasteland, he finds himself next to a woman's gruesome transformation. A vial in his arm, memories lost, and his skin shedding horror like a bad dream. His panicked cry for help attracts only flesh-hungry teeth. This city, this world, is no longer his own. 1993. Victor Boutros, a serpent draped in the skin of a businessman, sees the world's food supply as his oyster. Through bio-engineered seeds and ruthless ambition, he twists hope into hunger, twisting nature into an apocalyptic nightmare. He has no name, no past, but survival ignites a fire within him. Can he unravel the secrets buried in his flesh, the chilling truth that might hold the key to saving humanity? As the sun bleeds crimson across the broken landscape, one question burns: can good rise from the ashes of Victor's greed, or will the infected feast on the remnants of our world? The Code Within is a pulse-pounding science fiction thriller where humanity teeters on the brink. In a world devoured by its own ambition, where memory is a weapon and flesh feeds upon flesh, one man's fight for survival becomes a desperate gamble for redemption.