World War ZauthorMax Brookshas long been interested in infection and disease.
So, which book would the writer recommend people read to help survive a global pandemic?
“Microbe Hunters,” says Brooks, referring to the 1926 non-fiction best-seller by microbiologist Paul de Kruif.
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And theMicrobe Hunterstraces the history of germs and how humans discovered them and eventually linked them to disease.
To me, that is a fascinating detective story of human-microbe evolution."
Brooks' newly published novel concerns a threat considerably larger than a microbe.
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“I mean, I researchedeverything.
I researched how Mount Rainier would really erupt.
And, just FYI, they couldnt.
That is some brutal lethal terrain out there.
I tried to go the factual route.
If there was a giant species of ape living in North America, how would they live?
I went the path of facts and science.”
“Well, I dont read to get scared,” he says.
“I read to calm down.
Imnota horror guy, Im ananti-horror guy.
That aint where I live.”
