The stand – Stephen King

tephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world
blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and
evil remains as riveting—eerily plausible—as when it was first published. The New York Times called it “the book that has everything. Adventure. Romance. Prophecy. Allegory. Satire. Fantasy. Realism. Apocalypse. Great!”

Soon to be a limited series on CBS All Access
 
A
patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly
carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe
out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who
remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two
emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them
to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg,
the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the
dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to
choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.