The Slow Apocalypse - John Pether

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Résumé :
Too many, too clever-by-half; man must be severely culled. Extreme change in a nasty microbe should do the trick. Keep just a few survivors, watch how they start to create another so-called civilization again. That was the plan... When a massive solar flare hits the Steppes of Mongolia, a mixing-bowl for devastating strains of the flu virus, Professor Jessica Patton, head of a virus research laboratory, struggles to control an outbreak of influenza. The consequences for mankind are dire, but as one of few survivors of the deadly disease, Jessica leads a small band of people out of catastrophe. Curiously, a mysterious Horseman with supernatural powers, calling himself 'Death', appears to be controlling the fate of specific individuals. Is the strange rider one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse holding the scales of fortune, and could this really happen?