The End of October by Lawrence Wright

This pandemic begins in a camp in Indonesia and soon infects a whole country as the faithful pilgrims gather in Mecca. From there it moves and affects the world where widespread panic and WWIII threatens. Henry and his team from the CDC need to find a solution but Henry is trapped at ground zero in Mecca helpless as others around him to find answers not knowing what is going on at home. It is amazing to me how close this author has come to imagining life in a pandemic. When a crisis hits on a worldwide scale all the systems we have come to depend on breakdown. This is what can happen when a virus is unleashed and climate change, bio weapons, mass hysteria and racial hatred all rear their ugly head at once. This made my heart race more than a little bit.