Patient Zero

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry is a science fiction novel that involves Islamic terrorists trying to unleash a deadly infectious agent.

Plot
In late June Joe Ledger is picked up at the beach in Maryland by two guys who are seemingly working for the FBI. On their trip Joe Ledger reads about a terrorist El Mujahid who is wanted in over 40 countires; also we a shown a flash back of a mission with a special task force under the juristiction of Homeland/ and the Baltimore PD. When Joe leds a hit on a werehouse the terrorist attack and one of them bites on of the other officers but does not break the skin. At the end of the hit all the terrorist members die; and when the officers check for ID some government agents get them out.

When they reach their destination it is the same werehouse that was used by terrorist which is now being used by a new counter terrorism group. Joe is lead inside by some gaurds into a retrofitted office; he is then meeted by the group's leader Mr. Church. He tells him about how the "crazy" terrorist who bitten the officer (named Jerry Spencer) is infected with the pathogen Seif Al Din which creates zombies.