The Premonition: A Pandemic Story | 誠品線上

預兆: 疫情失控紀事

內容簡介

內容簡介 Amazon Book of the Month好書嚴選‧《金融時報》總編輯Roula Khalaf：讀這本書！榮登暢銷榜! 《大賣空》作者麥可‧路易士最新力作！他在中國網路爬文，發現大事不妙！美國淪為全球疫情重災區……Why？《紐約時報》：令人震撼的故事！《金融時報》總編輯Roula Khalaf：讀這本書！他看不懂中國網站的消息，只知道「螢幕一直跳出警告：這個網站不安全！」他將文字剪貼到Google翻譯後，眉頭皺起。「我懷疑已經有大批受感染的人入境美國，並且很可能已經傳染給其他人。」這場新冠疫情，世界為什麼會走到這步田地？為何美國淪為全球疫情重災區？不是說網路沒祕密，那疫情真相是怎麼被掩蓋的？不是說美國醫學領先全球，怎會死傷如此慘重？不是說美國CDC專家雲集，為什麼無能防患、早點擋下病毒？難道真是人類該當此劫，大流行病沒法預見、無能阻擋？不！麥可．路易士的調查採訪發現，早在官方說法與主流媒體報導之外，有一群專家、醫護、研究員，已經發現潛伏在身邊的不尋常警訊。他們敏銳地從武漢官方數據、中國網路新聞的字裡行間，嗅出大事不妙。他們趕緊通報CDC、向白宮預警，建議在疫苗問世之前，盡快採取社交距離管制。沒想到，卻一再遭到川普與CDC冷處理，直到……疫情徹底失控。麥可．路易士在《預兆》中，講述這群專家如何在一切惡化到不可收拾之前，就著手為這場人類浩劫做準備。深入描繪病毒風暴下，這群不為外界所知的無名英雄，如何秉持專業，高聲吹響喚醒世界的哨子。例如，有一群怪咖，組成一個神祕抗疫組織，還取名為「狼獾」；一位地方衛生官員也在醫療第一線，發現了不祥預兆；一位13歲女學生的科學報告，成了兩年來美國政府的抗疫藍圖……。本中文書介出自《預兆: 疫情失控紀事》早安財經文化有限公司出版THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Superb ... It is tremendous fun, tremendously told' The Times'A fluid intellectual thriller' Daily TelegraphFrom the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.'In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was happening. Except, that is, a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated - and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us, kept making the same mistakes time and again.This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren't prepared.The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated, traced and hunted the coronavirus; who understood the need to think differently, to learn from history, to question everything; and to do all of this fast, in order to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. It's a story about the workings of the human mind; about the failures and triumphs of human judgement and imagination. It's the story of how we got to now.'Lewis is a master of his form' Sunday Times"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Michael LewisMichael Lewis’s global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar’s Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.

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