Apropulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the BramStoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and AHead Full of Ghosts."Absolutely riveting." -- Stephen KingIn amatter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-likevirus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has aterrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quicklylose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they canbefore they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick anddying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, thecommonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down andthe government's emergency protocols are faltering.Dr.Ramola "Rams" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in hermid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eightmonths pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed--viciously attacked by aninfected neighbor--and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, wasbitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly aspossible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for herunborn child.Natalie'sfight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their waythrough a hostile and chaotic landscape filled with dangers beyond their worstnightmares--terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push themto the brink... "[Tremblay's]warmest and most humane book to date. Eruptions of violence are answered bymoments of poignancy." -- Guardian
Sobre o autor(a)
Tremblay, Paul
Paul Tremblay é um prestigiado autor de suspense, terror, fantasia sombria e ficção científica, com sólida formação acadêmica em matemática. Jurado do Shirley Jackson Awards, foi vencedor de prêmios de renome, como o Bram Stoker Award por O chalé no fim do mundo e Na escuridão da mente. Também é autor de Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Survivor Song, entre outros, e seus contos e ensaios foram publicados em veículos como Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, no site da Entertainment Weekly e em numerosas antologias. Tremblay mora com a família nos arredores de Boston, Estados Unidos. |