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88/100Critics
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97/100Author:
Michael Lewis
Publisher:
Allen Lane
Date:
May 4, 2021
An overview of how the Covid-19 Pandemic began and the people who worked behind the scenes trying desperately to contain it.
What The Reviewers Say
Lewis’s usual approach is to take a group of characters to flesh out a complicated theme and turn it into a gripping story. And he’s done it again here.
Replete with unforgettable characters, taut pacing and the stakes of life or death (or, in this case, death or less death), you can see each scene of the blockbuster play out on the screen of your mind. Then, you remember the page-turner you are ripping through is essentially about bureaucracy and its failings.
... maddening.
Lewis is superb at this kind of thing. It is tremendous fun, tremendously told. It is a measure of his skill that he can talk about epidemiologists who call themselves Wolverines and not make them sound like utter ninnies.
