Amy Gamerman’s “The Crazies” features just such a spirited entrepreneur and a cast of other compelling characters, including struggling ranchers, bucolic billionaires, Native American ...

Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.

As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected ...