Resident Evil: Extinction
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Dr. Jim Knable stood on the Ravens'Gate Bridge, with a seething tide of humanity heading straight for him. Knable was grateful for the presence of the Umbrella Corporation security guards and members of the Raccoon City Police Department who were stemming that particular tide, keeping him from being overrun.
Knable and a small medical station had been placed at the wall that had been hastily constructed around Raccoon City. The island metropolis had been completely enclosed by that wall, with the only opening at this bridge, the major artery in and out of Raccoon.
The outbreak of a virus that didn't just kill you but animated your corpse and gave it an instinctive need to feed on human flesh -- thus transmitting the disease to more and more people -- brought a fierce desire on the part of the surviving citizens to leave the city as fast as they could. But the risk of infection was quite high, so the Umbrella Corporation -- the pharmaceuticals and electronics firm that paid Knable's obscenely high salary -- physically quarantined the city and would allow onl ... read full excerpt from Resident Evil: Extinction ebook
