Na konci října – Wright Lawrence (2020)

In the Indonesian internment camp Kongoli, a mysterious infectious disease breaks out, killing young and previously healthy patients within days. The World Health Organization sends top microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons to the scene. He finds dozens of dead and soon discovers that one of the potentially infected has just set off to join millions of believers on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. For Henry, a race against time begins: will he and his friend, a Saudi prince, manage to quarantine the entire holy city? Or will the deadly virus find a way out and begin its march across the world, against which experts and politicians will be powerless? At the same time, a group is forming at the highest levels of the U.S. government, convinced that the virus is part of biological warfare, preparing to respond to the supposed attack in equally risky ways. The looming pandemic gradually escalates already tense global relations. And in Atlanta, Henry's wife Jill desperately tries to survive the hysteria of potential danger and protect their two children... A gripping and eerily prophetic thriller, it serves as a dark warning against the arrogance of power, a thrilling parable about the fragility of civilization, and a literary expedition into the world of pathogens and infectious diseases.