Survivor Track: A Novel

A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–successful writer of The Cabin on the Finish of the World and A Head Stuffed with Ghosts.

“Completely riveting.” — Stephen King

In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that’s unfold by saliva. However in contrast to rabies, the illness has a terrifyingly brief incubation interval of an hour or much less. These contaminated rapidly lose their minds and are pushed to chunk and infect as many others as they’ll earlier than they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken maintain. To attempt to restrict its unfold, the commonwealth is below quarantine and curfew. However society is breaking down and the federal government’s emergency protocols are faltering.

Dr. Ramola “Rams” Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic telephone name from Natalie, a buddy who’s eight months pregnant. Natalie’s husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an contaminated neighbor—and in a failed try to save lots of him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie’s solely probability of survival is to get to a hospital as rapidly as potential to obtain a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn youngster.

Natalie’s struggle for all times turns into a determined odyssey as she and Rams make their method by means of a hostile panorama stuffed with risks past their worst nightmares—terrifying, unusual, and typically lethal challenges that push them to the brink. 

Paul Tremblay as soon as once more demonstrates his mastery on this chilling and all-too-plausible novel that may depart readers racing by means of the pages . . . and shake them to their core.