Descrizione libro hardcover. Condizione: new. First Edition. An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global A pageturner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller New York PostFeaturing 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 ReviewsA compelling read up to the last sentence Wright has come up with a story worthy of Michael Crichton In an eerily calm matteroffact 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 ZoneThis timely literary pageturner shows Wright is on a par with the best writers in the genre Publishers Weekly starred reviewIn this riveting medical thrillerfrom the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling authorDr 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 kneesAt an internment camp in Indonesia fortyseven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever When Henry Parsonsmicrobiologist epidemiologisttravels 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 migr a woman who has risen to deputy director of US Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to what may be an act of biowarfare Alreadyfraying global relations begin to snap one by one in the face of a pandemic Henrys wife Jill and their children face diminishing odds of survival in Atlanta And the disease slashes across the United States dismantling institutionsscientific religious governmentaland decimating the population As packed with suspense as it is with the fascinating history of viral diseases Lawrence Wright has given us a fulltilt electrifying oneofakind thriller. Codice articolo DADAX0525658653

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End of October

Wright, Lawrence

Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, USA (2020)

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The End of October: A novel

Wright, Lawrence

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ISBN 10: 0525658653 ISBN 13: 9780525658658

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