French author Frank Thilliez seems immersed in a prolific stage of creation. He was recently talking about his novel Heartbeats, and now he presents us with this book Pandemic. Two very different stories, with disparate plots but conducted with similar tension.
As for the knot of the plot, the main guideline is that in this case the investigation advances with that unsettling point of global tragedy that all apocalyptic work accompanies. The truth is that we currently live immersed in the sensation of biological threat. The increase in the consumption of antibiotics immunizes viruses and bacteria; climate change favors the approach of insects to areas where it seemed unthinkable before; geographic mobility uses people to move diseases from one place to another. A real risk that this novel addresses with that sense of credibility that reality itself brings.
Because it is even worse to think about the capacity for destruction of the human being under spurious economic interests. Amandine Gúerin knows first-hand everything concerning infectious diseases, with its current unpredictable evolution.
Police officers Franck Sharko and Lucie Henebelle (regular in the work already published by this author in his native country), rely on it to find the origin of a threatening pandemic that is spreading uncontrollably. The first clues point to unscrupulous gangs dealing with organs. While the police try to find culprits, Amandine will keep on her shoulders a greater responsibility, to find the antidote, to search against the clock for the solution to the catastrophe.
Animals have always adapted better to great threats. Perhaps in them is the answer and the solution. For more than 600 pages we will be immersed night after night (or those other moments in which each one surrenders to reading), in an apocalypse hovering over humanity as a bad omen anticipated by the drift taken in the world with the intervention of the man.
The survival of the species will be in the hands of a science that at times seems overwhelmed, while the tandem Franck Sharko and Lucie Henebelle will not relent in their efforts to apply justice to the causes of this possible end of our civilization.
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