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The Plague Tales

The Plague Tales

Benson, Ann

Paperback

Series: Plague Tales, Book 1

Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $8.99

ISBN10: 0440225108
ISBN13: 9780440225102
Publisher: Dell
Published: May 11 1998
Pages: 688
Weight: 0.71
Height: 1.16 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.91
Language: English
Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.--Entertainment Weekly

It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague.

In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death. . . .

Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries.

From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past.

Praise for The Plague Tales

Benson reveals a formidable talent as she blends historical fiction with a near-future bio-thriller.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Harrowing . . . Will give readers both nightmares and thrills . . . A carefully woven page-turner from which . . . Robin Cook and Michael Crichton could learn.--Library Journal

A hard-to-put-down thriller steeped in historical fiction and bio-tech sci-fi.--Middlesex News (Mass.)

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