Bibliograph

End of days, Steve Alten ; based on a story by Steve Alten and Nick Nunziata

Type

Label

End of days, Steve Alten ; based on a story by Steve Alten and Nick Nunziata

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

End of days

Oclc number

654908428

Responsibility statement

Steve Alten ; based on a story by Steve Alten and Nick Nunziata

Series statement

Grim Reaper

Summary

Patrick "Shep" Shepherd was a promising major league baseball pitcher before September 11th, 2001. Shaken by the terrorist attacks, Shep left behind his wife and newborn daughter to enlist in the Armed Forces. Eleven years later, Shep finds himself in Manhattan's VA hospital. His left arm is gone, his wife and daughter are gone, and his tarnished soul is haunted by the nightmares of war. Mary Klipot, a scientist working at a biohazard level-4 lab in Fort Detrick, enters Manhattan with Scythe, a swift-acting version of the Black Death. Believing she was chosen to bring forth the End of Days she infects herself, unleashing a pandemic. Shep is the only one with the vaccine which he is determined to use to save his wife and child

Target audience

general

Classification