Try to relax, but you’ll just keep leaning in to get closer, more of this, faster. “Spiral” is a delivery system of everything fun and exciting about pop fiction. It’s a thriller with an old-school villain, a terrifying bio-weapon, wildly-believable pseudo-science, meticulously revised history, and a kickass prose-style. I loved this. That’s not to say there’s anything revelatory about it… it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it certainly paints it differently than any of the other wheels rolling around out there, and I’ll buy that […]
