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A DEADLY VIRUS. QUARANTINE. A WORLD IN LOCKDOWN. THE THRILLER THAT PREDICTED IT ALL. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Flies thrillingly, eerily close to reality' Guardian'This page-turner... is riveting and spookily anticipates much that has unfolded in reality' Sunday TimesA race-against-time thriller, as one man must find the origin and cure for a new killer virus that has brought the world to its knees.At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with a mysterious fever. When Dr Henry Parsons - microbiologist and epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe.As international tensions rise and governments enforce unprecedented measures, Henry finds himself in a race against time to track the source and find a cure - before it's too late . . .***WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:'If you have a desire to really understand what is going on in the world right now, this is a novel that you cannot afford to miss!''Well-written and fast-paced. Most of all utterly, scarily, believable.'
I thoroughly enjoyed an article by Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker, prompting me to buy this.The book was very interesting and had a good pace. The various story lines are handled well, giving me a realistic view of the action. Characters are well-developed, and the world painted in the book stayed in the back of my mind after reading. There is an undercurrent of hope and world cooperation which wasn't too sugary-sweet, but--I hope--possibly realistic.During the first chapters, I found myself wishing for more scientific background (which the New Yorker article had). I wasn't disappointed (I just needed a bit more patience ;-). I welcomed the medical background information: I have a daughter away in college during this pandemic and the extra scientific information does come in handy.There was a (misleading) review that I commented on because it almost stopped me from buying this book. I believe the bigots are depicted fairly, and realistically found on all sides of the conflict. The protagonist's best friend is a member of the Saudi royal family, and gives Henry an heirloom Koran, in which he finds solace later on in the book. Pilgrims wound up suffering from the virus in Mecca--but only as victims.
