Review: Very Realistic Pandemic Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2013
Lethal cold war era germs are released in present day Montana with devastating effects as the man-made disease spreads agonizing sickness and death throughout the American west.  Some of America's best scientists seal themselves underground and try to identify and control the pandemic as it spreads nationwide and worldwide.Man, the horror and carnage of this (very possible) scenario....comes through loud and clear in this story. This is really scary stuff.In the early going, I had trouble keeping track of who's who, because the initial story revolves around an extended Montana family with parents, grandparents, children, teenage grandchildren, great grandchildren, in-laws, ex spouses and boyfriends.  You have to keep track of all these characters while the story switches back and forth between pre pandemic-time and a week later (when there's a quarantine of the Montana town and the scientists are evaluating ground zero).  Got pretty confusing for me at times and I never really could keep track of them all....that is...until they started dying off.Like I said, the scenario laid out in this book is really scary stuff, so be prepared for nightmares if you read it.  Something like this really COULD happen.A minor side issue: this book needs better proof-reading for sentence errors throughout (not overly distracting to the reader, but it's there).