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Another Place to Die It was the secret China didn’t want the world to know, 200,000 people died suddenly in Jiangsu province. A new lethal flu virus is literally flying around the whole world. Everything your Government said would protect you is a lie. There will be no effective vaccine for six months. Make a choice. Escape to remote islands – or try to tough it out. There’s growing panic in the city, people are literally falling down dead in the streets. There are rumours of mass graves being dug. Europe has already succumbed as emergency systems are overwhelmed. Despite mass vaccination, will the same happen in Canada and the USA? People are scared – martial law is certain. Fen, aged 15, is dragged by her family to a tiny Gulf Island off Canada’s west coast to ‘ride it out.’ Deka, an immigrant cabbie in Vancouver, is convinced he can survive the flu, thanks to his vaccination by Dr Borov, another immigrant. The Russian, Borov is a former virologist who will treat anyone desperate enough to fill their veins with his home-made antiviral soup. Arno Lakis, an analyst with ‘Futuretank Inc’ in Toronto, has seen all the emergency scenarios – hell, he wrote some of them. He knows just how bad it’s going to get. He heads west to Rachel. If everything is unravelling, he wants to be with her to the end. Do you stay? Stockpile enough food and water for sixty days and pray the looters don’t get you, or escape and hope the virus doesn’t get there before you? As the world economy collapses and every certainty is swept away Another Place to Dieexposes the real horror of surviving the Great Flu Pandemic of 2009. Where would you go? Are you prepared? ISBN 978-1-84753-899-4 Lulu Publishing ID 472938 The right of Sam North to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, without the express written permission of the publisher. This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. First published in the UK & USA 2006. © Copyright 2006 Sam North. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Another Place To Die Avivid account of individuals caught up in a world flu pandemic – a terrifying scenario of people facing the horror of a killer virus that will kill millions. This is Sam North’s seventh novel; the first set in his home city of Vancouver BC. Sam is the Course Leader for the Masters in Creative Writing Programme at the University of Portsmouth. He divides his time between the UK and Canada. Sam is the founding editor of www.hackwriters.com– an award winning international writers’ magazine and he is a member of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain. Also by Sam North (Fiction) 209 Thriller Road Ramapo Going Indigo Diamonds – The Rush of ‘72 Eeny Meeny Miny Mole* as Marcel d’Agneau The Curse of the Nibelung – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (a new 2005 edition of the title originally written under Marcel d’Agneau nom de plume) (Radio Dramas) The Devil’s Dog Final Accounts Adventures with Randolph Stafford Copycats The War in Drab Nebula (Screenplays) The Pushover Got it Bad Acknowlegements To George R. Stewart for paving the way so long ago. Appreciation must also go to Allen Gibson in Vancouver for his many helpful suggestions and insider knowledge. I am especially grateful to Sara Towe for providing a base for me to work from in Vancouver. Thanks must also go to Tabytha Towe and Koko the wonder dog, both of whom who enabled me to understand Fen and Red so much better. A special thanks to Carine ‘Kit’ Thomas who designed this book and whose patience and encouragement was invaluable throughout.
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