Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world’s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn’t muster an effective response.
It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist despised by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with skepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop the virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their life’s work into life-saving vaccines in a matter of months, each gunning to make the big breakthrough—and to beat each other for the glory that a vaccine guaranteed.
A #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist lauded for his “bravura storytelling” (Gary Shteyngart) and “first-rate” reporting (The New York Times), Zuckerman takes us inside the top-secret laboratories, corporate clashes, and high-stakes government negotiations that led to effective shots. Deeply reported and endlessly gripping, this is a dazzling, blow-by-blow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time. It’s a story of courage, genius, and heroism. It’s also a tale of heated rivalries, unbridled ambitions, crippling insecurities, and unexpected drama. A Shot to Save the World is the story of how science saved the world.
作者簡介
古格里‧祖克曼（Gregory Zuckerman）
暢銷書《洞悉市場的人》（The Man Who Solved the Market）、《史上最大交易》（The Greatest Trade Ever）和《頁岩油商》（The Frackers）作者，《華爾街日報》特約撰述，主要報導金融機構、人物專訪、企業等，亦從事避險基金和其他商業調查報導；曾三次贏得財經新聞界最高榮譽的羅布獎（Gerald Loeb award）。
譯者簡介
張玄竺
（序、第一至六章、第十五章）
英國愛丁堡大學英國文學碩士，荷蘭拉德堡大學跨國商業溝通碩士在讀中。從文到商、從東方到西方，人生不斷跨越與挑戰。翻譯既是寄託，也是身心靈的形而上搖滾。
廖月娟
（第七至十章）
美國西雅圖華盛頓大學比較文學碩士。曾獲誠品好讀報告2006年度最佳翻譯人、2007年...