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005			20240528083317.0
020			_a9781784165741
040			_cAE-ShPAA
050			_aPS3573.W75 _bE53 2020
082			_a813/.54 _223
100	1		_aWright, Lawrence, _d1947- _eauthor. _918916
245	1	4	_aThe end of October : _ba novel / _cby Lawrence Wright.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2020.
300			_axi, 380 pages; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aThis is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf.
501			_aP.B
520			_a"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--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, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons 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 doctor and prince in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city. Matilda Nachinsky, 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. As packed with suspense as it is with the riveting history of viral diseases, Lawrence Wright has given us a full-tilt, electrifying, one-of-a-kind thriller"--
655		7	_aSuspense fiction. _2gsafd _96171
910			_a2001
942			_cBK
999			_c1470 _d1470