Announcing Z-Man Games Collaboration with Aconyte Books

Z-Man Games is proud to announce our collaboration with Aconyte Books to bring you the upcoming novel Pandemic: Patient Zero, the first book in a series of novels set in the Pandemic universe. Aconyte Books, the publishing arm of Asmodee Entertainment, has slated Pandemic: Patient Zero for release in September 2021, with two more novels in development for publication in 2022. For more details, read their press release below, and visit Aconyte Books online to see their entire catalogue of titles.

PANDEMIC NOVELS COMING FROM ACONYTE BOOKS, IN COLLABORATION WITH Z-MAN GAMES

The fiction imprint of global games group Asmodee, has announced details of its long-planned range of novels inspired by the global bestselling game Pandemic. And just like that game and its spin-offs, the novels foreground highlights scientific cooperation and human ingenuity, as its heroes try to ensure that humanity is protected from future outbreaks.

The first title will be Pandemic: Patient Zero, hitting shelves in September 2021. A few years in the future, an expert team of epidemiologists are expressly tasked with tracking down potential outbreaks and ensuring that they are resolved before a full pandemic can break out. In this first episode, new recruit Bodhi Patel finds himself in South America, far from his comfort zone, where the clues to the source of a new mutated virus lie on land controlled by a local warlord.

Aconyte’s publisher Marc Gascoigne said: “To say this series has been long in the planning would be an understatement. Patient Zero was completely written and about to be announced in early Spring 2020 when… well, we all know what happened next. Even with a message as positive as the one enshrined in the game and the novels, the timing wasn’t right. Now updated, it truthfully and respectfully captures the courage and sacrifice of experts in the field, and shows what can be achieved when teamwork, cooperation, and empowerment are put to the test.”

The author is Amanda Bridgeman, whose pair of futuristic crime thrillers, The Subjugate and The Sensation, have recently been optioned for a TV series by the team behind True Detective and Mr Robot. The Perth, Australia-based writer has worked closely with the Aconyte and Z-Man teams, constructing a complete cast of relatable characters, and the organisation they work for, who will appear throughout the series. Two more novels are currently in development, for publication in 2022.