Together they explore the endless streets of The City, searching for the remaining tenants. Soon Luka Sims, the publisher of the only newspaper in The City, believes himself to be the only remaining resident and wonders whom he knows who is still alive - until the day he finds the blind man. New arrivals, who used to stay an average of thirty years until the last person remembering them dies, now move on within hours. People start rapidly disappearing, and soon the exodus has disrupted the flow of The City. In The City, inhabited by the recently departed, the effects of the plague are first felt as a onslaught of new arrivals. Within a short period it becomes water and airborne, killing millions of people almost instantaneously. The Blinks begins with redness of the eyes, causing an uncontrollable blinking response and killing its victims within hours. In the not-so-distant future, a deadly plague has rampaged through the world. The Brief History of the Dead- book review
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