A next official novelization based on the multi-million-dollar video game franchise continues the efforts of a future world to survive under the influence of the Marker artifact that induces insanity and death before reanimating victims into rampaging monsters. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Open Curtain. Original. Video game tie-in. 35,000 first printing. Catalyst is the second novel in the multi-million dollar video game franchise Dead Space, from award-winning author B.K. Evenson Two hundred and fifty years in the future, extinction threatens mankind. Tampering with dangerous technology from the Black Markeran ancient alien artifact discovered on Earth eighty years earlier Earthgov hopes to save humanity. But the Markers influence reanimates corpses into grotesque rampaging nightmares. Steeped in desperation, deceit, and hubris, the history of the Markers reveals our ominous future
. Brothers Istvan and Jensi grew up under the poorest dome on Vinduaga. Jensi has always looked after Istvan, who sometimes lashes out in sudden episodes of violent paranoia. When Istvan is sent offworld to a high-security prison, Jensi is determined to follow and find a way to keep his brother safe. But the prison guards a horrible secret, one that will push both brothers to the cusp of something much greater and darker than they ever imagined.
