The End of October
- ISBN-10
- 0525658653
- ISBN-13
- 9780525658658
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Lawrence Wright
Description
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons 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 worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi doctor and prince in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city"--
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