He certainly saw the coronavirus coming long before most politicians, and was making preparations in January. He has the jittery energy of the chronically anxious, and the easy confidence of one who has been thoroughly validated. So if I’m the smartest guy in the room, we’re in big trouble,” he tells me over Skype from his home in Los Angeles (our interview was in May, before the national protests after the killing of George Floyd, but well after lockdown started.). The history of pandemics tends to come in extremely predictable cycles. But Brooks, 47, is dismissive of the hyperbole: “Everything I write about has already happened.
His 2006 novel, World War Z, was about a deadly virus originating in China that causes global devastation, and his compulsive new one, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Sasquatch Massacre, is about people forced into self-isolation, huddling in terror from an unimaginable threat outside. An author with cult appeal and massive sales, he is regularly referred to as “a soothsayer” and “a genius”. M ax Brooks is getting a little tired of being proved right.
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