Review: This is not Science Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
But it reminds me a lot of Executive Orders by Tom Clancy. Terrorism, politics, biological warfare and a big whopping battle at the end.That said this novel stands very well on its own legs. I almost gave it five stars but there still are those things that irritate me about Mr Nuttalls novels and it's mostly about the lack of background research. If somebody with military backgtound had done some proofreading there would have been five stars. Tom Clancy has an entire staff that checks on all background facts, which sometimes almost gets too muchThere is no rank like Command Sergeant in the American army among other things. My problem is that I was a professional Soldier for 40 years and its hard to forget. Otherwise this is a really excellent novel about what happens when biological warfare is used against the United States as a weapon of terrorism. In this case it's an upgrades form of smallpox and i t spreads like wildfire. Unfortunately this is not at all an unbelievable scenario since there still are states that do research on biological weapons and there is almost no vaccination against smallpox these days. Many hard decisions have to be made from the highest political level down to single families.Nuttall describes in sometime gruesome detail how society dissolves as the pandemie spreads not only to the United States but all over the World. The end will certainly make many people react but I found it satisfactibg in a grim sort of way.I can really recommend this book. If Christopher Nuttall could borrow som of Cancy's staff his books would be really super duper. He often comes up with interesting stories and sofar there is only one novel of his that I haven't liked. That is rather impressive when you look at his productivity.Hans