Pandemic Reckoning is a gripping portrayal of the harsh reality billions suffer as they either succumb to an avian flu virus or somehow avoid it. The few who do survive suffer the anguish of life in a post-pandemic cruel new world order. A tale meant to both enlighten and entertain, Reckoning is rendered realistic by persuasive scientific facts, including China being the source of numerous plagues and pandemics, the latest being the 2009 H1N1 "Swine Flu" pandemic. A group of ruthless billionaires break all the rules by creating and dispensing world-wide a highly contagious and potent flu strain. The flu spreads like wildfire, ultimately reducing the world population to less than 500 million, in obedience to the billionaires' highly-revered Georgia Guidestones that were erected in Elbert County, Georgia in 1980. The very first guideline inscribed in the solid granite Guidestones is "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature."