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If ever a book flipped a switch - at about the halfway point, to boot - to go from somewhat boring to incredibly thrilling, this is that book. I think the ‘calm before the storm’ half should have been better…but I’m shocked and captivated now.

During the COVID years, I didn’t totally avoid novels depicting pandemics, but this one didn’t get on my radar. I read Pandemic, by James Barrington in July 2020, which I figured, as a James Bond type scenario, would have a happy ending to a rather far-fetched plot. I read The Scarlet Plague by Jack London in 2021, which I loved, and which jumped to the post-apocalypse. THIS novel might have been too ‘real’, then.

I’m curious about this author.