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An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller. -New York Post Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics descriptions of pathogens and how they work and dark notes about global warming the book produces deep shudders . . . A disturbing eerily timed novel. -Kirkus Reviews A compelling read up to the last sentence. Wright has come up with a story worthy of Michael Crichton. In an eerily calm matter-of-fact way and backed by meticulous research he imagines what the world would actually be like in the grip of a devastating new virus. -Richard Preston author of The Hot Zone This timely literary page-turner shows Wright is on a par with the best writers in the genre. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons an unlikely but appealing hero races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons--microbiologist epidemiologist--travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now Henry joins forces with a Saudi prince and doctor in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city . . . A Russian émigré a woman who has risen to deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to what may be an act of biowarfare . . . Already-fraying global relations begin to snap one by one in the face of a pandemic . . . Henry's wife Jill and their children face diminishing odds of survival in Atlanta . . . And the disease slashes across the United States dismantling institutions--scientific religious governmental--and decimating the population. As packed with suspense as it is with the fascinating history of viral diseases Lawrence Wright has given us a full-tilt electrifying one-of-a-kind thriller.

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