The Culling (Bio-Thriller)
By Robert Johnson
The Permanent Press www.thepermanentpress.com
ISBN #978-1579623517
Price $29.00
326 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“Just two kids, two billion, we can live with that”
Five
scientists have recovered a super bug, H7N7, a subtype of the Swine flu that
killed so many people in 1918, discovered in an Eskimo grave in Alaska.
Concerned with the world’s over population as we press towards seven billion
people, they wish to curtail the growing numbers by introducing the flu bug to
an un-prepared public, perhaps killing sixty percent of those infected, or more.
After creating a Hot Zone in Laos, one of the members brings a doctor from the
CDC to investigate, then switches vials with him containing a less virulent
bug, which is sent to CDC. This causes a rush to produce the wrong vaccine.
Considering
the overpopulation of the world, the scientists believe they are doing the
right thing. Allowed to continue, the planet cannot support the growing
population and unless there is a great dying off, the world will soon collapse.
They plan to save the world by eliminating the masses through an unstoppable
strain of flu.
Told
as a mystery, I would say this bio-thriller is a great fictional story of a
scenario that only Hollywood could come up with, but it is not. This is so
real, it is frightening, and the possibility of a super bug really being out of
control among us is just around the corner. Although the characters are
fictional, the story is possible – and very likely. The book will keep you
awake nights, thinking about our vulnerability, and worried that we’ve already
gone too far for the planet to survive without a culling.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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