He did that on purpose!  That's what it's like to be a junkie...  Total and constant evisceration! 

hhhmmm...  SynapticJam on Toast - hhhmmm... tastes like chicken (aka PUVJK) #4 in crack hits (Special?  Ain't I just)  Multiple S.H.I.T. Award Recipient!  Double Dipper and Triple Threat!  All-around uberjunkie!

Make no mistake---I would have loved to see not only Perry but also Dew survive and make it into Pandemic. But Scott's willingness to kill off characters like Amos, Dew, and Perry give this book a deeper heft than most standard adventure novels. Characters change and grow throughout the course of this story. In the middle of Contagious, Margo hates Clarence, Dew, and Murray for being willing to sacrifice an innocent woman to get the live hatchlings needed to find the next gate. By the end of the novel, she's the one who argues that dropping a nuclear bomb on Detroit is the only way to stop the contagion. In fact, throughout Contagious you'll see time and time again one of the good guys telling another person on their same side "You can't do this, because there's a greater need elsewhere."

On the other hand, "nobody tells Chelsea what to do" which is why Ogden is forced to make the mistakes that eventually cost the triangles the victory.

I'll write a longer review later at Amazon, but this is a deeply satisfying book. I almost hope that this never gets made into a movie or mini-series because I don't think Hollywood could do it justice.