The novel “Some Will Not Die” by Algis Budrys was published for the first time in 1961, an expanded version of “False Night” of 1954.

Matt Garvin is part of the 10% of the population that survived a pandemic that also resulted in the complete destruction of the civilization. In a situation where anyone can be a mortal enemy, the only way to move forward is to find someone you can trust. Slowly, starting with his neighbors, Matt starts forming a new society that expands through Manhattan.

Joe Custis was commissioned to find Ted Berendsten, a leader officially killed many years before but according to various rumors actually alive and well hidden. The authorities that gave him that task want Berendsten because the army he commanded had led to the formation of the first real North American state after the pandemic so they consider him useful for the government of a new Republic.