In the Crosshairs

by Jerine P. Watson

How would the average American family react if all amenities of modern-day living were no longer available? This novel explores the ingeniousness of people faced with untenable living conditions, unlike anything they have ever had to cope with. A pandemic of plague-like proportions sweeps over the land, killing most of the people it infects; those who survive seem to have a natural immunity. Some of those, however, are not of the most stellar moral fiber and form packs of angry vandals who prey on the other survivors. A few manage to retain their sanity and with clever inventiveness scrabble out the beginnings of new civilizations, much the wiser for the heinous, paralyzing disease. The Survival of the Fittest could be a most appropriate sub-title for this terrifying thriller, the events of which are no longer completely unrealistic.

202 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004