Overview

After an ancient virus is unearthed in an Egyptian tomb by an archaeology grad student, he unwittingly sets it loose in a small Northwestern town.Cats begin acting strangely - and aggressively, forming packs and roaming the streets after dark, attacking people and dogs.Human victims of these attacks develop vertical pupils - as they begin to lose their minds.As the "catagion" infecting the town's cats threatens to spread far beyond, an epidemiologist and a local veterinarian race to uncover a 3,000-year-old cure from ancient catacombs in time to contain the plague and save lives in this offbeat, nail-biting mix of science, science-fiction, horror, and humor through the eyes of a laid-back, quick-witted high school senior.Warning: you may never look at your kitty in quite the same way again.