The End of October
Pages: 374
|Published: 28 Apr 2020
Description
In this medical thriller 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.
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.
