Pulitzer Prize winner journalist Lawrence Wright’s new thriller is a prophetic account of a viral outbreak Covid-19 may lead to an outpouring of pandemic fiction but Lawrence Wright got there first—even before the pandemic itself.
In the last few years, the award-winning journalist was immersed in research for his new novel, The End Of October, which was released recently, ahead of schedule, as the book’s publishers found it an uncanny mirror to our times.
Set in the spring of 2020, the story revolves around the outbreak of a novel coronavirus—far deadlier than SARS-CoV-2—causing a disease called Kongoli flu.
Traced to a camp in Indonesia, this mysterious microbe affects the immuno-compromised worst, leads to rapid decline of the person