The End of October Lawrence Wright

BANTAM PRESS

A pandemic ravages the world, bringing death, quarantines, unemployment and social unrest in its wake. Sound familiar? Marketed as ‘eerily prescient’, and written months ago by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright, The End of October is a cut above the usual sort of doomsday thriller. The hero is an epidemiologist racing to find a cure. The villain is the virus itself – stealthy and totally without mercy. While timely, it’s not for the faint-hearted. M.Egan