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robbob

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11. Someone here posted a link to the opening chapter, I believe...

Reply to druidity33 (Reply #6)

Wed May 29, 2024, 09:56 AM

May 2024

It opens with an aid worker in India (I think) trying to survive a devastating heat wave and ends with him crawling out of the tepid pond in the middle of the town the morning after to a city centre full of corpses.

Devastating, and all too plausible the way the world is going. I also forget the name of the book, but I’d like to read it.

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