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At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer. A swift and all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation that moves from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to the U.S. as it eerily evokes real-life current events.

Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore’s walled inner city, where women continue to pass down the art of courtesan from mother to daughter. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore, installing him as head of the Mohalla police station and charging him with a mission: to cover up the violent death of a young girl.

La obra de Conan Doyle está compuesta de novelas policíacas, de anticipación e históricas. Entre las primeras, todas ellas con los protagonistas Sherlock Holmes y el doctor Watson, están Estudio en escarlata (1887), El signo de los cuatro, Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (1892), Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes (1894), El perro de los Baskerville (1902), El regreso de Sherlock Holmes (1905) y Recuerdo de Sherlock Holmes (1927). Algunos de estos títulos son recopilaciones de los relatos cortos que publicó en diarios y revistas, medio habitual en Conan Doyle e idóneo para este tipo de obras. Sherlock Holmes adquirió tanta popularidad que se llegó a convertir en un mito literario, un personaje de ficción que oscureció a su propio creador, Conan Doyle. Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE nació en Edimburgo en 1859. Fue educado por jesuitas hasta su entrada en la Universidad para cursar estudios de Medicina, carrera que finalizará en 1881. Terminada su carrera, ejerció la medicina entre 1882 y 1890 en Portsmouth y comenzó a escribir, creando el famoso personaje de Sherlock Holmes y de su ayudante, el doctor Watson, iniciando así una serie de obras que duraría hasta el final de su vida. Pero la literatura no le hizo abandonar su otra profesión, la de médico: como tal participó en la campaña del Sudán (1898) y en la guerra de los bóers (1899-1902) en el ejército británico.