The Way

A postapocalyptic road trip and a quest for redemption. It's 2048, and the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus. With few exceptions, only the young have survived. Cities and infrastructures have been destroyed, and the natural world has reclaimed the landscape in surprising ways, with herds of wild camels roaming the American West and crocodiles that glow neon green lurking in the rivers. Will Collins, the last surviving resident of a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, receives an urgent and mysterious request: to deliver a potential cure to a scientist on the West Coast. So Will sets out into an unknown and perilous world, haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved, in a rusted-out pickup pulled by two mules. He doesn't have much time—temperatures are rising to lethal heights, a hit man is on his tail, and armed militias patrol the roads. The only way he'll make it is with the help of a clever raven, an opinionated cat, and a tough teenage... BlendingZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenancewith Cormac McCarthys propulsiveThe Road, this is the story of a battle-scarred survivor on a desperate post-apocalyptic road trip, across a landscape ravaged by a deadly virus, racing against time to deliver a possible cure to a scientist in California, if California even still exists Imagine a cross betweenThe RoadandZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and youll enter Cary Groners page-turning vision of the near-future, when the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus and only the young have survived. Cities and infrastructures have been destroyed, countries no longer exist as they once did, and the natural world has taken over the landscape in surprising ways. Our narrator, a former caretaker of a Buddhist monastery in Colorado, has been tasked with bringing a potential cure across the treacherous landscape, with a hitman on his back, to a scientist in Californiathough he doesnt know if California still exists. Along the way hes accompanied by a clever raven and an opinionated cat, with whom he converses. Its a page-turning adventureboth a quest and, ultimately, a love story. The wisdom of this imaginative and inventive novel stays with you long after youve turned the last thrilling page.