The International Writers Magazine: Prescient Flu Pandemic Novel from Sam North

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ANOTHER PLACE TO DIE by Sam North Lulu Press - ISBN: 978-1-84753-899-4 - Print $18 - Download $3.95 The Great Flu Pandemic is coming. No one can stop it. Everything your Government said would protect you is a lie. In 1919 a worldwide flu pandemic killed 50 million people. The next pandemic could wipe out as many as 500 million the bad news, it might already be here. The Swine Flu pandemic of 2009 was just the beginning Reviews: 'It will keep readers in suspense, laced with gritty-gallows humor' Charlie Dickinson * 'Beautiful, plausible, and sickeningly addictive, Another Place to Die will terrify you, thrill you, and make you petrified of anyone who comes near you...'. Roxy Williams - Amazon.co.uk * Available from Amazon.com & direct from the publisher Lulu Press also Waterstones in the UK

Another Place to die by Sam North This thriller will not fail to shock, delight, and keep its readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish. Calvin Hussey

Background Brief :
It begins with a small outbreak in the summer and is almost forgotten. Then as winter sets in it begins to spread alarmingly. The opportunity to stop it, halt international flights, prevent people gathering for sports matches and poltiical gatherings is not taken until far too late. Sounds familiar? As the UN declares Swine Flu Catefory 6 and it spreads to all parts of the world, we are still complacent. 8000 die worldwide in 2009 and we have Tamiflu to contain it. But Tamiflu will not stop it, it will mutate. There is no firewall between us and the next lethal stage of the disease.

Phase Two: Two hundred thousand people die suddenly from a mutation of the virus. Before any Government can contain it, it is already literally flying around the world. It gains a firm foothold on North America’s Coasts – despite widespread use of antivirals and a sophisticated ‘National Strategy for Pandemic Planning’. Yet the vaccination needed to combat this new lethal strain is at least four to six months away.

Worldwide, economies are already imploding from the worldwide recession. Homeland Security have already closed the U.S. borders. Real estate everywhere is in free fall. Rumours of mass burial sites already being dug outside the city are circulating. Everyone is afraid of each other and martial law has already been imposed in some major cities in Europe and the States.

Fen 15 and her restless family have already fled to one of the many Gulf Islands off British Columbia Mainland - but after just four weeks they are going completely stir-crazy. To make matters worse, Fen hears rumours of people going from island to island burning and looting.

Arno Lakis is a successful futures analyst in Toronto, but he’s read the runes, seen the secret mortality figures. He has made his choice. To stay is to die. He flies West, on one of the last flights before they close the airports. He intends to find Rachel, a woman he met just once at a conference. Rachel is his big plan. If you can’t rescue the world – save the one you love. Rachel’s job has already gone, and her apartment building is in quarantine, she can’t live there.

Deka, the immigrant cabbie is one of the few men confident he won’t get flu. He has shunned the government’s antiviral TCH-5 and used Doc Borov’s killer soup instead, a home made vaccine developed by a former Russian virologist and ex-cabbie, who claims it will beat the virus. Doc Borov runs a secret clinic from a Gastown art gallery.

Vancouver is still functioning, seemingly secure because everyone is vaccinated. The Premier is reluctant to close things down, aware that fifty-percent of the population could be made unemployed. The rich are leaving, their yachts disappear at night.

A city on the verge of a nightmare, reluctant to close it’s eyes for fear of what may come.

There is a choice; hide away and hope to survive it, or flee to remote locations. But beware, the virus might get there before you. We discover the truth, there are no lone heroes to save mankind after all – it’s every man, woman and child for themselves.

We are never more than three days away from civic breakdown and the virus quickly exposes our vulnerability. Cities die fast and all the planning in the world can’t help when no one can get to work and the power shuts down. Realistic, plausible and relentless, Sam North’s Another Place to Die is a blueprint for anyone seeking survival tips for the coming pandmic

Another Place to Die – Lulu Press – ISBN: 978-1-84753-899-4 - now available as a download to any e-book. Available to order from all good on-line booksellers, Blackwells in Portsmouth and Waterstones in the UK
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Fascinating, frightening and compelling, Another Place to Die is the ultimate page-turner which I guarantee will result in many late nights under the bedside light with you uttering, ‘just one more chapter!!’ Ian Middleton
© Sam North December 2009

Author
Sam North is the author of Diamonds – The Rush of ’72 and The Curse of the Nibelung – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery and Mean Tide. This is his seventh novel. Sam is a former contributor to Elle Décor New York, editor of the long running Hackwriters.com – the international writer’s magazine and he runs the Masters in Creative Writing Programme at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He divides his time between Vancouver, Canada and the UK. He has just sold a a new novel to Hodders Childrens for publication in March 2011

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This might well be the one book you need to help you survive Mexican Swine Flu..
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See also:

The Curse of the Nibelung - A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Sam North ISBN 1-4116-3748-8 $19.98 Retail - 300 pages - Lulu Press USA 'Chocolate will never be the same again' - Sunday Express Buy from your favourite on-line retailer Amazon UK Amazon USA Barnes and Noble & Waterstones Or buy direct from Lulu Press plus delivery charges

Diamonds - The Rush of '72 By Sam North ISBN: 1-4116-1088-1 Buy now from Amazon.com 'a terrific piece of storytelling' Historical Novel Society Review Now printed in the UK and available from Amazon.co.uk & Waterstones

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