Due Preparations for the Plague A Novel [Paperback]

Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival.Starred Review. Strong stuff; and accomplished fusion of doomsday thriller and mordant morality play.A writer of high tension and terrifying allure.Starred Review. Hospital is a writer of many gifts; her dark imagination, astute insights into societal interactions and the supple beauty of her prose provide an irresistible combination. This latest novel is an enthralling tale.Unputdownable...does for the post-September 11 era what John le Carr? did for the Cold War.One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today.Janette Turner Hospital is a writer of consummate craft and visionary insight. She is always surprising, and seems always to be renewing herself as one of our major writers.This is a rich and powerfully imagined novel of chilling timeliness. In this bracing, visceral thriller...Hospital continually locates, in human events, the unyieldingly human experience.