The First Horseman Book

What does a small-town in N. Korea that has been obliterated by it's own government, a cult in NY & exhumed bodies in the Arctic have in common? That's the puzzle & it is somewhat slow-going as it builds it's case. It all has to do with the Spanish Flu but not in 1918 but in the late 20thC!

Ok the reviews are all over the place from the GR community on this one and well yes, the characters are one-dimensional but I thoroughly enjoyed most of this suspenseful tale. I think the author based the cult organization on the Church of Scientology but their pillars were about saving Mother Earth. So the strategies they used were a combination of Scientology & Greenpeace harassments but with lethality

I found the science interesting especially in light of the situation we are in today. If you want your virus education wrapped up in a palatable format, this might be the book for you. Not much thriller, if one equates that to a reading thrill-ride, until the last quarter and the ending is predictable. It's a slow burn that builds the heat as more is revealed. I guessed quite a bit just because I think as a populous we know so much more now than when this was written in 1998.