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Lawrence Wright s The End of October is a thriller for our times By Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times © Penguin Random House/Tampa Bay Times/TNS The End of October by Lawrence Wright “The End of October” by Lawrence Wright; Knopf (400 pages, $27.95) Timely books are often described as “ripped from the headlines.” But Lawrence Wright’s new novel, “The End of October,” scooped the headlines with its tense tale of a fast-moving pandemic and the cascade of political and human costs it brings. An advance review copy of the book landed on my desk in January, which means it was finished and edited last year. Wright wrote in a March column for the New York Times that the basic idea for the story came from a conversation he had with director Ridley Scott years ago about Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel “The Road.” “What happened?” Scott asked, to reduce civilization to rubble in that book.

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