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    After the Cure
    After the Cure
    After the Cure
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    After the Cure

    By Deirdre Gould

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    Eight years ago the December Plague swept through the human population of earth. The Infected were driven mad by the disease, becoming violent and cannibalistic, killing even those closest to them without hesitation.

    Six years ago, the tiny surviving community of Immune humans found a cure, and the Infected began to wake up and realize what they'd done. And what had been done to them.

    Over time, society began to rebuild itself. Now it is ready to judge those responsible for the Plague. Nella Rider, the court psychiatrist and Frank Courtlen a defense attorney are trying to establish the truth. But more depends on it than they know. They race to find the answers they need before the fragile remains of humanity vanish for good.

    The After the Cure Series:
    Book 1: After the Cure Book
    2: The Cured Book
    3: Krisis Book
    4: Poveglia Book
    5: The 40th Day

    And a new story in the After the Cure world: Before the Cure now available

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeirdre Gould
    Release dateNov 21, 2013
    ISBN9781311855558
    After the Cure
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    Deirdre Gould

    A severe addiction to Post-apocalyptic literature combined with a lifetime of a very rural existence, first in central Maine and now in northern Idaho naturally led to both of Deirdre's novels: The Jade Seed and After the Cure.Deirdre's education in anthropology and peace and conflict studies prompted the central idea for After the Cure: How do people live with each other after doing horrendous things to each other? How do societies put themselves together or continue to exist after terrible wars? What is day to day existence like when such violence exists within living memory? Though fiction can never come close to the reality of living with atrocity, it can help us ask important questions about our world and our treatment of each other.Since living in the woods makes it all too easy to imagine being one of the last people left in the world, After the Cure is only the first novel of several that will take place in a post-apocalyptic, "post-zombie" world.

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