<p>Guardian's Book of the Month, 2018<br><br>'[With] echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on South<br><br>If a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...<br><br><br>The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorious, but terrified of reprisal...