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The End of October
- A Novel
- Gesprochen von: Mark Bramhall
- Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 26 Min.
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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.
Kritikerstimmen
"[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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- Martin Virtel
- 20.03.2021
Revolting, perhaps a bit over the top
A story about a devastating contagious disease may not brighten your pandemic depression, but it's a well told, riveting story, masterfully crafted with attention to emotional details and scientific fact. Still I wondered if the narrative could have done with protagonists that had a duller past so their present and presence would have more breathing room.
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- Selicor
- 26.05.2020
Excellent! Wright is a magician
It gave me the creeps to hear the story of the corona virus unfold with lots of details, which I considered specific to our 2020 crisis. I stopped listening and read up on the book and the author. As it turned out he had begun his text in 2017 and submitted the finished book in summer 2019. He researched extensively, then wrote a page-turner with a complex, interesting plot, credible characters and heaps of information in between that would be entertaining and thrilling if we did not live right now in real time, what he describes. You won’t believe it but he makes the president go for a treatment that isn’t yet approved by the WHO and it does not end well. That, by the way, was when I stopped the audiobook and researched the author. How could Wright have known that Trump would claim he was taking Hydroxichloroquine? Well, he didn’t. He guessed and guessed right.
This is a book about a pandemic, our pandemic, in fact, that is worth reading. But be warned! It does not end with a vaccine as we all hope our corona crisis will.
The minute I was through with this book, I downloaded The Looming Tower, for which Wright received the Pulitzer Prize. Whatever he writes, I am going to read or, as in these cases, listen to it.
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