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Resistance

door Val McDermid

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"Journalist Zoe Meadows is on a break from hard-hitting investigative reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival. She and her friends, who run a food truck, head north, along with 150,000 festival-goers for a weekend of music and camping. When some of the revelers fall ill, many point to food poisoning. But after the festival ends and attendees scatter across England, more people begin to get sick, and then some die. The mysterious illness is spreading fast and baffles doctors, resisting all efforts to contain or cure it, and desperation leads to scapegoating which shades into violence. With time running out and her own world upended, Zoe must face dismissive medical professionals, misinformation, and one of the most threatening public health crises of our time, antibiotic resistance. Conceived before COVID-19, Resistance is a powerful, alarming cautionary tale about an equally deadly threat from the minds and pens of Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs"--… (meer)
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* I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this book. *

The prospect of one of the UK's greatest crime writers turning her hand to a graphic novel is pretty exciting, and Resistance does not disappoint.

Zoe is a journalist based in Newcastle who is assigned to cover a major music festival. People at the festival start to get sick, seemingly from food poisoning. When a headline act dies, fingers start to be pointed at Zoe's friend Sam, a sausage seller. But things become a lot more concerning when the illness spreads to people who were not even at the festival. Soon it becomes clear that a major health emergency is in progress.

McDermid's tale of an illness crossing from animals to humans and wreaking global havoc has obvious parallels with the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, although the dystopia that she portrays is far worse than anything being experienced now. Kathryn Briggs' black and white artwork is striking, and she uses backgrounds cleverly to draw links between what is being experience and the great plagues of history, such as the Black Death. This is a gripping read, which has some cogent points to make about how fragile our civilisation actually is, and how unprepared we are for some circumstances that COVID-19 has shown are far from impossible. ( )
  gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |
Well, ok, so some of deal with bleak and frightening times by leaning out, and others show us how it could be worse. As a work, it captures a breathtaking and realistic trajectory of disease, which makes it terrifying and powerful. I wanted there to be more hope and resilience.

Advanced Readers' Copy provided by Edelweiss. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
A drug resistant epidemic starts in factory farm, spreads worldwide. Journalist investigates and scientists battle it.
  ritaer | Aug 19, 2021 |
I'm not a graphic book reader. I'm not a vegetarian. I'm not an animal rights activist. I do work with food safety issues including teaching how to undertake HACCP (risk evaluation) assessments of a kitchen so that uncooked product does not contaminate cooked product. All in all I really should not be reading this book which is about a virus that is easily killed by heat but yet somehow, despite all safety measures, is introduced through a fully-regulated, certified food truck selling properly cooked sausage. (To forestall any discussion, the mad cow outbreak in the UK was linked to contaminated sausage. Mad cow is a prion disease and prions are not killed by heat.)

Some people complain that pdf pages load slowly. I had no trouble. I liked the grey and grey color scheme. I ignored the drawings to read the text and it took me only a few pages to get the hang of the layout so reading went smoothly with the pdf viewer in vertical scrolling mode. I got bored with a story I could not take seriously and didn't finish. I asked for this book because it was Val McDermid, but let's go back to mysteries.

I received a review copy of "Resistance" by Val McDermid from Grove through NetGalley.com. ( )
  Dokfintong | Jun 24, 2021 |
Resistance is a graphic novel written by Val McDermid and illustrated by Kathryn Briggs. The story was originally a radio broadcast on BBC4 in 2017 and is about the dangers of the overuse of antibiotics, and industrialized farming. It begins at a music festival in Scotland. The main protagonist is reporter Zoe Beck who is covering the festival. Several festival participants become extremely ill after eating at a food truck owned by Zoe's friends. Fortunately, everyone recovers and things go back to normal...for a short while.

Then, after a week or so, people begin feeling ill again and purple blotches break out on their skin. Doctors are baffled by the disease especially when antibiotics seem to have no effect on it. Then a popular performer at the festival dies and now Zoe's friends become the targets of hate when their food truck is shut down. Zoe is determined to protect her friends' reputations while following the biggest story of her career. She investigates his suppliers to discover the original source of the disease. But even as she investigates the plague spreads, seemingly unstoppable, killing millions as it gallops across the world. Scientists work frantically to find a cure but, slowly, one by one, their communications go dark.

This is a well-written story by McDermid, made all the more terrifying by the very real and horrifying possibilities the overuse of antibiotics may lead to. It is perfectly complemented by the artwork, sharp and occasionally chaotic as the disease spreads. There are some, no doubt, that may find this novel insensitive given that we are in the midst of a very real and deadly pandemic but, if we learn anything right now, it's not only the danger of disease caused by human action whether overuse of antibiotics or loss of habitats bringing us closer to animals who may carry diseases we have no immunity to but our refusal to take the threat seriously enough to prepare for it.

I can't say I found the novel enjoyable given the subject and the times but it is well-written and compelling. I recommend it highly to anyone wanting to understand better the world and the possibilities if we won't reevaluate what we are willing to accept both for ourselves and the only planet we have in the name of profits and expediency.

Thanks to Netgalley and Grove Atlantic for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review ( )
  lostinalibrary | May 8, 2021 |
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"Journalist Zoe Meadows is on a break from hard-hitting investigative reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival. She and her friends, who run a food truck, head north, along with 150,000 festival-goers for a weekend of music and camping. When some of the revelers fall ill, many point to food poisoning. But after the festival ends and attendees scatter across England, more people begin to get sick, and then some die. The mysterious illness is spreading fast and baffles doctors, resisting all efforts to contain or cure it, and desperation leads to scapegoating which shades into violence. With time running out and her own world upended, Zoe must face dismissive medical professionals, misinformation, and one of the most threatening public health crises of our time, antibiotic resistance. Conceived before COVID-19, Resistance is a powerful, alarming cautionary tale about an equally deadly threat from the minds and pens of Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs"--

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