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  • The End of October

  • A Novel
  • Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
  • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
  • Durée: 13 h et 26 min
  • 4,3 out of 5 stars (34 évaluations)

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The End of October

Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
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"An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global.... A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant best seller." (New York Post)

"Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark notes about global warming, the book produces deep shudders.... A disturbing, eerily timed novel." (Kirkus Reviews)

"A compelling read up to the last sentence. Wright has come up with a story worthy of Michael Crichton. In an eerily calm, matter-of-fact way, and backed by meticulous research, he imagines what the world would actually be like in the grip of a devastating new virus." (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone)

"This timely literary page-turner shows Wright is on a par with the best writers in the genre." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

In this riveting 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, 47 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 worshipers 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 US 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 fascinating history of viral diseases, Lawrence Wright has given us a full-tilt, electrifying, one-of-a-kind thriller.

©2020 Lawrence Wright (P)2020 Random House Audio
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Ce que les critiques en disent

"[Narrator Mark] Bramhall animates a storyline that's all too real, and all too close to home, and he lends intimacy and immediacy to the epic melodrama that has now become present reality. Any other time - even six months ago - this would have been an urgent cautionary tale. Now, alas, it's the morning's news." (AudioFile Magazine)

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Timely and captivating but loses steam

When the story began, I found it quite captivating and engaging, but I found at about 3/4 of the way in, the author skipped large parts of the story and was just rushing to the end. Almost like they were running out of paper and had to finish in a certain amount of pages. I was disappointed with the last 5 chapters how it was wrapped up.

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Coincidence beyond coincidence

Wow. So many of the pieces of this book for right into our latest pandemic. Amazing to think the author wrote this before our latest COVID-19 crisis. I listened to this recording while I ran a marathon so the pacing was perfect for my pace. I enjoyed the book and would recommend.

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Amazing and prescient

Particularly good for those interested (or newly interested) in virology. Found it lagged a bit at the very end but overall excellent read.
Highly recommend it.

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Disturbing but well written pandemic novel

This was a difficult book to read in the midst of a pandemic. The Karrick tours were well drawn, not just cardboard cut outs. The story was eerily compelling.

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It is Time to listen to this book

I wasn’t too sure about making this choice...but for all of the license the writer takes fictionally it is also loaded with factual accuracy as well. The timing...extraordinary as we face a pandemic quite a bit less concerning than this authors fiction it helps to know that we are so very lucky COVID is not the killer needed to produce this work of fiction. However we are blessed in a way that perhaps COVID will teach us valuable lessons that will prevent the fictional world of this book from ever becoming realty. I felt maybe more intensely because of COVID for the characters in the story with my own emotions caught up in the story complete with tears and cheers. I feel blessed that this time, this story is fiction and I pray we pay attention so that the world may never experience the real life version of this book. Put you masks in place, don’t be in a hurry to move too quickly, learn the lessons COVID can teach us, lest real life become stranger than fiction.

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