The release date for the English version of 'The End of October' by
Lawrence Wright is Apr 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The improbable but endearing hero of this medical thriller, Dr. Henry Parsons, must race against time to discover the source and treatment of a mysterious new lethal virus that is bringing the globe to its knees.
Acute hemorrhagic fever claims the lives of forty-seven people at an Indonesian internment camp. The findings of Henry Parsons, an epidemiologist and microbiologist working for the World Health Organization, during his investigation there will soon have far-reaching effects on people all over the world: an infected guy is en route to join the millions of pilgrims who perform the annual Hajj to Mecca. In an effort to place the entire group of pilgrims in the holy city under quarantine, Henry now teams up with a Saudi royal and a physician. Assuming the role of deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security, a Russian émigrée woman frantically organizes a counterattack in case biowarfare is carried out.One by one, already collapsing international ties break down 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.