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I'm not really in a position to suggest a good book on viruses. I found out about this from a pop-sci book on latest research on aging and longevity.

When it comes to viruses though, there's one more very fascinating hypothesis. That the cell nucleus itself was once actually a virus that took over some bacteria to do its bidding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_eukaryogenesis

Not a book, but prof. Vincent Racaniello offers free courses[1] and has great youtube videos.

[1]https://www.virology.ws/course/

Red queen gives some perspective on evolutionary arms race between hosts and pathogen. Virus is a piece of genetic material, so to understand a virus one needs to understand how a gene evolves.

It’s not a science book, but this did bring to mind an enjoyable sci-fi book by Greg Bear called Darwin’s Radio, for reasons that’ll be obvious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Radio