**** TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP BOOKS **** Grim Reaper: End Of Days NY Times bestselling author Steve Alten’s epic new book, Grim Reaper: End of Days (Tor/Forge – St. Martin’s Press) introduces readers to the dangers of biological warfare. Grim Reaper will open your eyes. Believing she has been chosen by God to bring on Revelations, Ft. Detrick microbiologist Mary Klipot releases a man-made version of Bubonic Plague at the U.N. – exactly six-hundred and sixty-six years after the Black Death nearly wiped out humanity, the near End of Days event summoning the Grim Reaper to walk the earth. Alten’s novel is The Stand meets Contagion, posing an all-too-real scenario in a post 9/11 society where public safety is an illusion. What really would happen if humanity was struck with an unstoppable plague? What if this plague was contained on an island? What if you could eradicate said island. Would you do it? Does God factor into this? Would He “stand by” and let man create his own Armageddon or step in...