Review: Finally, the final. All I hoped for...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2013
In reviews of Episode One and Two, I have said, "... the research involved ... is excellent. The science utilised ... is flawless." I still stand by those statements completely. Beck takes the theoretical and blasts it straight into reality. He must spend weeks researching even the tiniest plot point. Amazing.In Episode One, we see the result of a mission into the depths of the Amazon, and the plague one team member who escapes unwittingly brings back. In Episode Two, we follow the journey of Matt Kearns, scientist and adventurer, as he and a small party try to replicate that journey, and find themselves in a lost world. Here in Episode Three, we return with the remnants of that expedition to find the entire word, drastically changed, under attack by a minute parasite that has the ability to destroy the entire human race.The clock is ticking for humanity as Matt and the other survivors attempt to reach one of the last outposts of civilisation with a cure for the parasite, hindered on the way by the evil that lurks inside many people.In the end, we truly are our own worst enemy.Brilliant. Savage. Brutal. Compelling. Eminently readable.Beck writes for the fan of science-based blockbusters. If some of his offerings aren't turned into films soon, there is something very, very wrong.5/5, a rating I very rarely give.Geoff Brown - president, Australian Horror Writers Association.