Earth's New Beginning: The Sleeping Death Contagion

In Gleed's debut, a lethal virus, The Sleeping Death Contagion (SDC), decimates the global population in weeks, killing infected victims in their sleep within three days. A rare genetic immunity leaves fewer than one in a hundred thousand alive. The novel tracks the first nine months post-outbreak through the experiences of six survivors across Canada, England, Kenya, China, France, and the USA, exploring their struggles and resilience in a drastically changed world.

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About the Author: John Gleed
John Gleed is a retired high-tech executive now living in Morrisburg, Ontario, Canada on the Canadian shores of the St. Lawrence River, bordering New York State. He has always been interested in apocalyptic fiction about what might happen if a worldwide catastrophic disaster occurred.

"Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham, "No Blade of Grass" by John Christopher, "On the Beach" by Neville Shute and "The Stand" by Stephen King are among his favorite novels.

Gleed was born and grew up in the small village of Dishforth in rural North Yorkshire, England. He emigrated to Canada in 1969. He spent most of his high tech career in Ottawa, Canada with Nortel and Systemhouse and he was a founder of the Canadian software company, JetForm Corporation. He retired in 2002 when the company was taken over by Adobe.

In talking about his new novel, John Gleed said, “Have you ever dreamed about a world where you can live wherever you want, without regard to what you can afford? Have you wished that you could go into any store and just take what you wanted no matter what the price sticker said? This is the kind of world in which the subjects in my story find themselves ... but this freedom came at such a great cost."
In Gleed's first novel, a highly infectious virus (The Sleeping Death Contagion — SDC) kills most of the Earth's population in less than three months. In only three days, the virus causes the death of nearly every infected victim as they sleep. Only a rare and random genetic immunity to the fatal effects of the virus leaves less than one in a hundred thousand survivors.

This story follows the lives of six different survivors in Canada, England, Kenya, China, France and the United States for the first nine months after the disease strikes.

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