![]() And then the Swine Flu pandemic hit in 2008! Looking back, it should have come as no surprise to anyone, especially me, that my first stab at writing a novel would center around a pandemic. Max Brooks brilliant novel, World War Z a few years after that. The book Hot Zone by Richard Preston and movie Outbreak was like a one-two punch, released a year apart in 1994-95. I burned through The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton in a single sitting. Captain Trips from Stephen King’s epic, The Stand, was burned into my psyche from an early age. The idea for TJP sprang from an already unhealthy obsession with viral outbreaks. ![]() A fear with its roots firmly planted in my first novel, The Jakarta Pandemic (TJP for short), published ten years ago. Unfortunately, one of my greatest fears has come true. A pandemic is not something you ever hope to be “right about.” You hope it never happens. ![]() I arrived at a rather unenviable and hopefully “once in a lifetime” position recently-having accurately predicted the pandemic now sweeping the globe. ![]()
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