BIOHAZARD VENDETTA (novel)

BIOHAZARD VENDETTA is the official novelization of the 2017 film, Resident Evil: Vendetta.

Plot
The novel begins with DSO agent Leon S. Kennedy spying on Steven Air, a Senator for Maryland implicated with Derek C. Simmons' Neo Umbrella conspiracy. When three of DSO agents are killed in a car-bombing, Leon suspects there is a traitor within their ranks.

In Mexico, a Mexican Army platoon conducts an anti-terror operation in Iztaccíhuatl. BSAA agent Chris Redfield is also present as a UN observer. The target of the operation is the Glenn Arias, a former CIA agent-turned black-market weapons dealer. In the forest the platoon reaches Arias' mansion, built in the George Trevor style. As the platoon investigates the mansion additionally in search for missing BSAA agent Cassy White and her children, feared held hostage, they begin transforming into zombies or being killed in elaborate booby traps. Arias escapes the mansion as it is set on fire, with Chris as the sole survivor of the platoon. The two fight with martial arts, but Arias defeats Chris with a shot to his body, though he is protected by his armor. A large BOW under Arias' control arrives with the zombified Cassy White. Arias loses interest in Chris and leaves him for Cassy, who Mexican reinforcements dispatch.

In a flashback, it is revealed that Arias is not the agent's real name, but the third in a series of aliases he assumbed. At his wedding day, a bomb goes off and kills his fiancee, Sarah, and the rest of his family and the congregation save himself and Diego.

Back in the present day in Chicago, Illinois, Rebecca Chambers continues her work as a BSAA advisor while researching vaccines at a local university. She and her colleague, Aaron, are investigating a newly discovered virus, and thirty infected corpses are delivered for them to investigate. As Aaron looks at one of the corpes, it begins to move. The facility then mysteriously loses power, and a gas cannister containing an airborne virus is released into the room. Aaron is zombified and Rebecca has to kill him. The moving bodybag opens up, and is revealed to contain Maria Gomez, who hacks into the facility's computer to steal its data. When finished, she destroys the building. Chris and a BSAA team arrive at the facility and rescue Rebecca.

Rebecca is taken away to a hotel to recover. Watching the news, she learns that viral incidents are happening in Minnesota and Canada. She quickly informs Chris she successfully developed a vaccine for the virus just prior to the attack. However, due to the BSAA's poor relationship with the United States, they are not in any position to help. From what information the BSAA can access, Chris reveals that the virus is similar in some way to the modified Plagas used by Los Iluminados.

Rebecca is escorted along the Rockies in a vehicle with Chris and BSAA members "DC"; Nadia, and Damien. They are on thier way to Colorado to find Leon, who was instrumental in the fight against Los Iluminados. Leon is still upset over the deaths of his colleagues, and the apparent corruption of Benford's cabinet, and wants no part in the mission. While they talk, Arias and Gomez spy on them through cameras. He notices Rebecca, who should have zombified in the attack on the lab. Back inside, Rebecca injects herself with her vaccine, and reveals that all three of them are likely infected, and that their lack of mutation suggests Arias is somehow able to trigger them. Chris tries to comfort Leon by bringing up their time in Lanshiang, and tries to convince him to help by telling him how he almost quit the BSAA.

An acquaintance of Leon's, arrives. Patricio, a former member of Los Iluminados, has been living in the United States following its destruction in 2004, and became a drug dealer. Leon is confused by his appearance. Rebecca meanwhile is abdcted in a restroom by Maria Gomez, which gets the attention of DC; Nadia and Damien outside. The three are quickly defeated in a fight. Diego arrives with a gatling gun and lays waste to the restaurant. Patricio is fatally injured in the attack, and hands his phone to Leon in his final moments. When the attack is over, the Gomezes leave with Rebecca. Leon finally decides to join Chris' fight when Patrico's daughter phones up, wondering where her father is.

In Manhattan, Rebecca wakes up to find herself in a wedding dress identical to Sarah's. Arias tells her he knows of her vaccine to his "a-Virus". He goes on to describe the virus as existing in three strains: "Base"; "Trigger" and "Inactive". "Base" spreads through fluidic contact, Arias having spread that virus in the Great Lakes. People infected with "Inactive" are ignored by other infected and mentally active. "Trigger" is an airborne pathogen. Arias intends to use Rebecca's blood to enhance his virus, which would prevent the BSAA coming up with a cure.

As she resembles Sarah, Arias asks her to marry him, before threatening to control her through the a-Virus if she says no. Arias hates mankind for his wife's death, and believes that infecting them with his virus is the only way to end evil. Rebecca refuses to marry him, so he has her sent away to the lab to be infected.

On a plane, the Silver Daggers investigate Rebecca's laptop. Leon inserts the SD card from Patricio's phone, hoping to find a link. DC finds Arias' location, along with information on Trigger and Inactive. They get to New York too late to prevent the pandemic of "Base", but have a chance to prevent "Trigger" being dispersed. The Silver Daggers arrive at Arias' fortress and are attacked by zombie dogs. They split up into two teams: Chris; Nadia and DC search for Arias himself, while Leon and Damien handle the dogs.

Chris' team reaches Arias, who warns him of Rebecca's infection. Maria shoots DC, injuring him. Leon and Damien prevent Trigger from being dispersed, though Damien is killed in the attempt. Leon heads up to Arias' hideout and kills Maria. As Leon returns to the BSAA team, Chris leaves them to look for Arias.

Chris rescues Rebecca from the lab, but is given a warning from Arias that he has only thirty minutes to save her. As they escape, she begins to fall ill, indicating the progression of the infection. Diego tries to kill Chris and Rebecca, but is injured by the other Silver Daggers. Chris takes Rebecca back to the lab and tries to infect her with the Inactive strain, hoping it will save her. He starts fighting Arias again as Diego begins to mutate. Leon tackles Diego but is unable to defeat him without Chris' help.

As the Silver Daggers leave the building in a helicopter, they disperse the Inactive strain into the atmosphere to end the pandemic.