Death Wind

Death Wind by William C. Heine. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780515039610.

Originally titled THE LAST CANADIAN ( a much better choice, in my opinion) Death Wind is the story of a mysterious outbreak of plague which, in one of the novels most frghtening sequences, wipes out the combined populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico and both Central and South America in less than a week! One man, Gene Arnprior, gets his wife and two sons into the wilderness of Quebec before its too late and for a while the book settles down into a sort of Swiss Family Robinson style adventure story. But then....