The End of October

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. M6 - A 3rd printing hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, less than half-inch tear on the bottom spine, dust jacket and book havesome bumped corners, some wrinkling on the spine edges, some light wrinkling on the bottom page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 380 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. LAWRENCE WRIGHT, THE PULITZER PRIZE-winning author of The Looming Tower, now gives us an electrifying thriller about a mysterious killer virus bringing the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. At the same time, halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leap-frogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions - scientific, religious, governmental - and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright's acclaimed nonfiction, and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.