The Suicide Collectors

Sci-fi Drama

"Interesting characters that you care about, out of the ordinary story. Quick read, had trouble breaking away and doing other things. Highly recommend."

GREAT THRILLING END OF THE WORLD TALE

This is afine read with the suspense of a mysterious suicide plague and the few strong survivors who fight instead of giving in to the pull of the strange despondency. A lone survivor with a feisty little girl travel cross county to solve the plague. Very enjoyable characters and a good read

One Of The Best Books Of The Year

This book takes the premise that millions of people will get a unheard of disease and kill themselves. Sounds far fetched, doesn't it? Boy is it ever and what's more this author delievers one of the best stories of the year. When his wife finally kills herself the protagonist takes off on a cross country trip with the other surviving member of their town. This is a tale of self discovery with many quirky characters along the way. I strongly suggest this book to anyone who wants to read a book the likes of which they have never read before.

This is how I like my post-apocalyptic books: one man trying to make his way in a new world.

Norman lives in Florida. He has only one neighbor left. The Despair has almost wiped out humanity. Rational people, happy people, commit suicide. Not necessarily in a flashy "Goodbye cruel world" fashion, but it happens just the same. Once a person has died, the Collectors remove the body. No one knows why or where. Norman is the first and only man to defy the Collectors when they come for his wife. This begins his long journey with Pops, the neighbor, toward Seattle where, rumor has it, a doctor is working on a cure for the Despair. A fabulous first novel with its only downfall being a lack of explanation at the end.

This well written haunting science fiction tale will grip the audience from the onset

No one surviving understands much about the Despair plague, but in the five years since it first surfaced or at least was identified the pandemic destruction of the globe has left fewer than 10% of the population alive. Incredibly, in this relatively short time so many have committed suicide. Those left behind struggles with grief, survival guilt and despair over the future.

In Florida, Norman comes home to find his beloved wife dead, a victim of an overdose. When three Collectors arrive to take away the corpse, Norman refuses their entry. Instead he and his neighbor Pops fire at them; blowing away one of them. The remaining two leave with the corpse of their comrade while Norman and Pop discuss how the Collectors know when to come for a dead person like they did within a few hours for Norman¿s wife. They also realize they cannot remain here as more Collectors will come so they discuss where to go before these ghoulish scavengers come back for them. They decide to cross the country to Seattle where rumors that a research scientist has found a cure to Despair. In Kansas, courageous but frightened eleven year old Zero joins the traveling Floridians, who have met death everywhere on their trek.

This well written haunting science fiction tale will grip the audience from the onset when Norman finds his wife dead in their bed and never slows down as he and Pops travel as bleak a landscape in recent memory. The story line is fast-paced but gloomy as Despair is the shroud that hovers across America. As in the Zager and Evans 1969 song In The Year 2525 states: ¿¿ For what he never knew now man's reign is through; but through the eternal night the twinkling of starlight¿, a dash of hope mostly through the intrepid Zero who brings a reason to live to the adult Floridians.

Harriet Klausner

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