Croatoan. Somoza H.K.

September 6, in the near future, the world goes crazy: people and animals, snakes and insects go in whole colonies, crawl, fly - in a single rhythm, a single body - through cities, forests, mountains and swamps. All living creatures met in the way either join an ominous procession or die on the spot. Governments of different countries, police, scientists, journalists are lost in conjecture, not understanding what is happening. Almost the entire planet is covered by a total epidemic. Television screens are extinguished, communication ceases to operate. The disappearance of all forms of civilization is coming. This apocalypse was foreseen by Professor Carlos Mandel, an animal behavior specialist who committed suicide two years ago. Before his death, he programmed the sending of a message to several loved ones, including his student, the biologist Karmele Garses, and this message could help change the course of terrible events. But will it be possible to understand it? After all, it consists of the only word “Croatoan” - the inscriptions found on the distant island, where in the 16th century the entire population mysteriously disappeared...

Jose Carlos Somoza, a popular Spanish writer, whose novels were translated into several dozen languages, The winner of the Golden Dagger Award and many other literary awards, writes the history of a scientific and detective investigation, on the results of which the fate of mankind literally depends. Somoza does not believe in realism, however, the “Croatoan”, the phantasmagoric picture of the world catastrophe, which drives all living things and threatens the destruction of mankind, suddenly turns out to be more true than many serious forecasts that claim realism.