This is a book about the next global outbreak after COVID-19.
Jim Shepard’s deeply researched novel, written before COVID-19, imagines the world’s next pandemic.
Phase Six takes place not too far in the future.
Shepard “imagines that we learned nothing from COVID-19,” said a review on goodreads.com.
“While that might feel like a scary story to jump into right now, the writer always creates such intelligent characters that are a pleasure to follow and this book is no exception,” said the review.
It added: “In a small mining town in Greenland some deadly pathogen has been released and one young boy, Aleq, is the only one who survives. The CDC dispatches two women, Jeannine and Danice, to try and figure out what the world is now dealing with. It becomes part thriller as the women, and scores of scientists all over the world, try to find a solution to this new killer, but the writer never sacrifices events for characters and we come to admire this young boy and the two women as much as we do the thrilling plot.”
