Peter Heller is the author of the novels The Guide, The River, Celine, The Painter and The Dog Stars, as well as four non-fiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me Abo ...
In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, who lives alone after most of the world was killed in a superflu pandemic ...