Plague Year

by Jeff Carlson

Overview

"Terrifying." --Scott Sigler "Riveting." --David Brin "Rock-hard realistic." --James Rollins The nanotech was intended to save lives. Instead, it killed five billion people, devouring all warm-blooded lifeforms except on the highest mountain peaks. The safe line is 10,000 feet. Below, there is only death. Above, there is famine and war. Humankind's final hope rests with a scientist aboard the International Space Station... and with one man in California who gambles everything on a desperate mission into the ruins of the old world...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996082327
Publisher:	Jve
Publication date:	06/27/2015
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

JEFF CARLSON is the international bestselling author of "Plague Year," "Interrupt" and "The Frozen Sky." To date, his work has been translated into seventeen languages worldwide.

What People are Saying About This

James Rollins

"Harrowing."--(James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas Strain)

Robert J. Sawyer

"Marvelous."--(Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Rollback)

David Brin

"One of the best debut novels in years."--(New York Times bestselling author David Brin)

Kevin J. Anderson

"Fascinating."--(Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling co-author of Hunters of Dune)

Editorial Reviews

This tiresome sci-fi thriller debut, set in postapocalyptic California, has an ingenious kickoff that unfortunately goes nowhere fast. Following the accidental release of a deadly nanotechnology (designed to fight cancer), much of the world's population is dead; in the California Sierras, above the plague's high-water mark (10,000 feet), Cameron Najarro, Albert Sawyers and their small group of survivors eke out a desperate living, turning to cannibalism for survival. Meanwhile, in the International Space Station Dr. Ruth Ann Goldman and her team are making progress on a vaccine. Things go bad quickly when Goldman and her team return to Earth to test a hypothesis: first, they crash land in the middle of a civil war, then they find that the military has its own plans for the vaccine. When the astronauts and mountain survivors finally meet up, Goldman is surprised to find valuable allies in Sawyers and Najarro, and the three set off with a few others to find a lost lab that may hold the key to stopping the nano menace. The timely idea may hold readers' interest, but only so far as their patience allows; though well-written, the heroes' lengthy journeys slow the story to a pace almost as tormenting as organ-liquefying micro-machines. (Aug.)

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