Deadweight

• "It was hailed as the answer to the obesity epidemic; a pill that allows you to eat anything you like and still lose weight. Millions were attracted by the promise of a leaner, fitter body, but there was a fatal and unforeseen flaw in this new panacea. A tiny microbe, lurking within, slowly infects the users. In turn they pass the infection to others, and before long tens of millions are infected and turned into mindless, shambling wrecks, with the sole purpose of existing to eat. A few unfortunate souls suffer with the hunger of the dead but the mind of the living. They are neither dead nor alive, but something in between; something far more dangerous to the surviving humans." ― edited from this book's product page on Amazon's product page as of 2020-09-17.