The Stand
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: Oct 1, 1978
Page Count:
1,597
Word Count:
470,659
Description:
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen.