title: The Last Plague (The Apocalypse Series)
author:  Glen E. Page 
description: As a family practitioner, Dr. Glen Page encounters a variety of society's illnesses. The principal characters in [i]The Last Plague[/i] face many of these same illnesses in body, mind, and soul. Although the book is set on a stage of biblical proportions, Dr. Page hopes readers will identify with and learn from the struggles and triumphs of his characters.
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  For Susi
  
  > Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’s acquaintance is to ascertain how
  > the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.
  
  > —Albert Camus, _The Plague_
  
    
  
   **Contents** **Part I: The Host**
  
  > 1: Welcome to El Bordo
  
  > 2: The Price of Something Purchased
  
  3: The Threshold
  
  >  **Part II: The Environment**
  
  > 4: The Canyons and the Mesa
  
  > 5: The Beat
  
  6: Shore Leave
  
  >  **Part III: The Pathogen**
  
  > 7: Mythmaking
  
  > 8: Modes of Control
  
  9: Causation
  
  >  **Part IV: Containment**
  
  > 10: And Yet They Love Them
  
  > 11: The Bottom Line
  
  > 12: Endless Variation
  
  > Epilogue
  
  > Acknowledgments
  
  > Notes
  
  > Index
  
  > A Note on the Author
  
    
  
   **PART I**
  
   **The Host**
  
    
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   **Welcome to El Bordo**
  
  I stood in the middle of the Jack in the Box parking lot, looking around
  anxiously, sweating under the desert sun. I had worn “slum-appropriate”
  clothing, or at least a facsimile of what I thought that meant: blue button-
  down shir