On their way to CDC headquarters, they pick up hilariously foulmouthed rock god Pete Corley, back from delivering Willie Nelson’s guitar to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. When Black Swan kidnaps Shana’s child, she and Benji set off on another cross-country quest to find a way to save him.
In Middle America, President Ed Creel, a murdering, bigoted, bullying Trump clone, raises his own army of scumbags to fight what remains of the culture wars. Among the survivors are Benji Ray, a scientist formerly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Shana Stewart, who is pregnant and the reluctant custodian of the evolving AI (via nanobots, natch) Sheriff Marcy Reyes and pastor Matthew Bird. To recap: A plague called White Mask decimated humanity, with a relative handful saved by a powerful AI called Black Swan that herded this hypnotized flock to Ouray, Colorado. Now what?Ī sequel to a pandemic novel written during an actual pandemic sounds pretty intense, and this one doesn’t disappoint, heightened by its author’s deft narrative skills, killer cliffhangers, and a not inconsiderable amount of bloodletting.
The world as we know it ended in Wanderers, Wendig’s 2019 bestseller.
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