Y the Last Man: Book Four

So much has happened since the end of the previous volume, Yorick & company have been on a quest to reclaim Ampersand, find Beth & save the human race.  After the revelation of drug running pirates on the high seas the book goes through several flashback stories about all of the important characters.  All of these stories explain how Yorick, Beth, 355, Dr. Mann & Alter got to were they are today.  Yorick has made it to Australia only to find that Beth knows he is alive & has gone in search of him in Paris, France.  Before he can leave the land down under a reporter takes Yorick's picture showing the world that the last man isn't a myth.  They have to leave to continue on their quest for Ampersand in Japan.  The company gains a new companion in the form of Rose who is more than a friend to Dr. Mann along the way but is she all that she seems.  Back in the states Hero is performing some task for her brother as penance for her bad decisions in the past.  She finds Beth the woman who seduced Yorick is pregnant with his child.  The two then travel to Kansas back to the astronaut & her baby.  By the end of this book Yorick's group have retrieved Ampersand from some messed up Triads, Dr. Mann has reconnected with her mother, 355 & Yorick have grown closer together but there is still an unseen storm on the horizon.  Alter is back on the hunt for the last man on earth & she will kill whoever she has to in order to find him even Secretary Brown.  Plus we still don't know who Toyota is working for but whoever it is was working with Dr. Mann before the plague hit.