Wild Zone — John A. Schettler

A shadow has fallen over earth?s latest and most promising colony prospect in the Dharma system.
When a convulsive solar flux event disables communications with the Safe Zone, special agent Timothy Scott Ryan is rushed to the system on a Navy frigate to investigate. He soon becomes embroiled in a mystery that threatens the course of evolution itself as a virulent new organism has targeted mankind as a new host.

Ryan?s mission is to make contact with the Dharma facilities personnel and determine overall integrity of the colony. His search begins to uncover strange evidence that the Safe Zone has been overrun by an indigenous life form. His investigation soon becomes a struggle for survival and a search for the missing personnel begins to pull at a thread of mystery that threatens to unravel the weave of all life on the planet, indeed, of evolution itself.