13 Days

Tom Wilson is fifty-five, widowed, and prepared. His farm outside Tyler, Texas has a hand pump, a root cellar, and enough fence line to hold. What he hasn't prepared for is Cole Hargrove - a quiet, watchful man he meets on a Gulf cruise the week the world ends.

When a rapidly spreading outbreak grounds the ship and then grounds civilization, Tom and Cole make their way back to the farm with a small group of survivors in tow: a teenage boy pulled from the wreckage of a cruise ship, a retired ...