"Sting of Death"A biothriller about control, consequence, and the cost of being human.Berlin is on edge. The air tastes wrong. Sirens fade into silence. And deep beneath the rhythm of everyday life, something has already begun.When former detective Marie Winter wakes up alone on a public bench, she has no idea how she got there. Her children are safe-for now. But there's something in her bloodstream. Something artificial. Intelligent. Waiting. And she's not alone.Across the city, people are dying-suddenly, silently, without visible cause. The only trace: a faint mark on the skin and a symbol burned into the public's collective fear. Officials call it an isolated event. Others whisper a name long buried: Viktor Granz. A former biologist turned myth. A mind once exiled for crossing ethical lines now possibly orchestrating a second genesis.But this is not a viral outbreak. It's not war. It's something colder. More intimate.Every breath becomes a risk. Every touch a transmission. And as society fractures under the pressure of invisible threat, Marie finds herself caught in the center of an experiment no one agreed to-but everyone is part of.A single ampoule.A moral equation.A countdown no one hears.How do you stop a system that doesn't need to survive-only to spread?"Sting of Death" is a haunting, high-stakes biotech thriller that fuses psychological tension with unsettling plausibility.For readers of Marc Elsberg, Michael Crichton, Emily St. John Mandel, and fans of Black Mirror and Children of Men.Once you've been marked-the question is not how long you have left, but how many will follow.