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Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital Fourth Estate £17.99, pp352 How do you prepare for death?
In "Due Preparations" there is more than a tremor.
Like Frederick Forsyth's recent Avenger, Due Preparations for the Plague plays on the collective nightmares of the West after 9/11.
Fear of terrorism in the post-September 11 world is central in Janette Turner Hospital's political thrillers Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) and Orpheus Lost (2007).
"Due Preparations for the Plague" -- the title and the frequent quotes from Camus indicate the author's larger intentions -- is a descent through Dantean circles of governmental conspiracy and betrayal.
Previously, Hospital's interest in coincidence has been fruitful; her 2003 novel, "Due Preparations for the Plague," in which the children of the victims of a downed transatlantic flight discover that the passenger list wasn't arbitrary but rigged, was distinguished by an ability to render both the experience of extreme grief and the suspenseful mechanics of a conspiracy plot.
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"But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level; that requires due preparation and advance work".
Come without due preparation and training and you could well find yourself in an existential crisis.
[But] if you're unused to taking vigorous physical exercise, you shouldn't throw yourself into violent exertion without due preparation".
On Iran, we know Senator Clinton supported Kyl-Lieberman and condemns Obama's readiness to conduct direct and unconditional diplomacy with Iran, obviously after due preparation, at the Presidential level.
However, due to preparations for the 1998 World Cup, a national training camp was scheduled for May 19.
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