'What could have happened when this virus exploded - even when Wuhan was locked down - is we could have put the word out,' he says. government was blindsided by the pandemic is 'an onion of layered lies.'

But, he adds, 'we have been disastrously slow and disorganized from Day 1.'īrooks says the notion that the U.S. 'We have a network in place that we as taxpayers have been funding to get us ready for something just like this,' Brooks says of the U.S. The author, whose books include World War Z, Germ Warfare and the forthcoming Devolution, has toured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has reviewed government response plans related to various emergency situations - all in the course of research. This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.A reporter wearing a latex glove raises his hand to ask President Trump a question during a coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 16.Īpocalyptic novelist Max Brooks is something of an expert on planning for pandemics and other disasters. “Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.” - Dallas Morning News “Will grab you as tightly as a dead man’s fist. “Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. “Will spook you for real.” - The New York Times Book Review THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic.

“Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”- Entertainment Weekly.

World War Z by Max Brooks