{"product_id":"survivor-song-9780063035898","title":"Survivor Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cabin at the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Head Full of Ghosts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Absolutely riveting.\" -- Stephen King\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Ramola \"Rams\" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed--viciously attacked by an infected neighbor--and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie's fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile and chaotic landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares--terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[Tremblay's] warmest and most humane book to date. Eruptions of violence are answered by moments of poignancy.\" -- \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTremblay, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePaul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of \u003cem\u003eGrowing Things, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, \u003c\/em\u003eand the crime novels \u003cem\u003eThe Little Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Sleep Till Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e online, and numerous year's-best anthologies. He has a master's degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50380091359506,"sku":"9780063035898","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_448a47ad-8f84-4b09-acb5-7f6102372b74.jpg?v=1728674791","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/survivor-song-9780063035898","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}