The Dog Stars
- ISBN-10
- 0307950476
- ISBN-13
- 9780307950475
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Peter Heller
Description
Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors. A first novel by the author of The Whale Warriors. Reprint.
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