The Stand? Really?
A long winded treatise on good and evil that would be even longer but for the dues ex machina ending no doubt insisted upon by the publisher.
Ah good triumphs over evil when "the hand of God" explodes a nuclear device.
Give me a break.
Yer overanalysing. The stand is a great generic story. The idea of a plague that starts out with a colds symptoms is horrific.