The Last Canadian by William C. HeineMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Born out of the Cold War and in tune with modern lit/film that sees the world wiped out by mysterious plagues. Like the "The Last Man on Earth" TV series, the supposed last man finds other rather quickly. This quickly spirals from wary encounters to surviving multiple nuclear attacks from Soviets who seek to capitalize on having wiped-out the population of the Americas with a designer plague. Main character Eugene Arnprior, an American engineer living in Montreal only just having acquired Canadian citizenship, is like a character out of a Jules Verne novel putting together random technology and resources to find solutions. The book was an easy and interesting read. It was released in the U.S. as Death Wind. With all its connections to current culture and a resurgent Soviet-like Russia, this book is ripe for a revival and maybe even truer film presentation than the 1998 movie "The Patriot".
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