Review: Fighting through the bodies in New York subways
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2013
Edward W. Robertson takes a couple of themes (plague and monumental disaster) and puts his own spin on who survives and how in "Outcome." Ellie, a super-smart agent with the U.S. Department of Advance Analysis, figures out before anybody else that a brewing human-killing virus will put to shame the deaths caused by the flu that swept the planet during World War I. Her first thought is to save the man to whom she once gave her heart and who now wants nothing to do with her. He lives in New York. Going after him is crazy as the virus soon begins to spread, affecting the population with amazing intensity and bringing about a dark side from those in power. The pace is rapid and the character development strong. This is a short book but Robinson packs in a lot of detail and imagery. For instance, he gets the ambiance, or smell, of wafty Manhattan spot on. No doubt from his time at NYU. The reader indeed feels he is on the streets of the City.