Quarantine!

“Quarantine! is an amazing story of Gay and Phil Courter’s struggle to get off the Diamond Princess, where people were catching COVID-19 in epidemic numbers. While the Japanese government ignored their plight, the American government intervened and brought them home. Gay tells an intense human story with big historic implications. If you want to understand the early days of COVID-19, this book is a must read.“  – Newt Gingrich“A gripping account of being trapped aboard the most famous cruise ship since the Titanic. Quarantine! is an exceptional first-hand report of what it was like trapped onboard the Diamond Princess, desperately pleading for rescue as the world slowly realized what the novel coronavirus was about to become.“  – Scott Keyes, founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights

Gay Courter is the author of five bestselling historical novels, with over three million copies in print, and I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate. Gay did research for The Girl in the Box, a medical mystery set on a cruise ship, aboard the Diamond Princess in 2017.

Phil Courter (photographer), Gay’s husband, is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, author of The Filmmaker’s Craft, and designer/builder of innovative film devices. Now semi-retired, he designs and builds musical instruments, furniture, and sculptures. He’s also a bluegrass musician.

Sarah Flynn (editor) was at Houghton Mifflin in Boston when she worked with Gay on her first three novels. An independent editor since the late 1980s, she is also co-author of Voices of Freedom, a companion volume to the Emmy-winning documentary series Eyes on the Prize.