Plague Tales

Zusatztext “Part historical novel! part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.” — Entertainment Weekly “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.) Informationen zum Autor Ann Benson lives in Connecticut with her husband and is the mother of two grown daughters. She is also the author of the acclaimed novels The Plague Tales, The Burning Road, and Thief of Souls . Klappentext In this spellbinding novel of adventure and science! two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new Bubonic Plague. In the year 1348! a physician journeys to England on an impossible mission to save the royal family from the Black Death. In the year 2005! a scientist unearths a terror laying dormant in the soil for nearly 700 years. Their stories are linked by history and defined by circumstances. They are the plague tales. Online (www.plaguetales.com). April, 2005 London Janie and her assistant sat at a small round table in her London hotel room, a small efficiency with a kitchenette and sitting area. Intended to accommodate the service for a minimal tea, the table wasn´t quite up to holding an entire scientific research project. It overflowed with piles of disorganized paperwork, which would ultimately be gathered together in a coherent fashion and rewritten to create a doctoral thesis, one that Janie sincerely hoped would make it past the critical--but she had to admit, fair--eye of her thesis advisor back in Massachusetts. "If John Sandhaus could see this mess, he´d have a conniption fit," Janie said. "Sorry," her assistant said with a hurt look. "No, no, I don´t mean to imply it´s your fault," Janie quickly added. "I knew there would be this much paper. It´s just that right now it doesn´t have that ´career-saving´ look I´d hoped it would. It looks like one of my early medical-school projects. Completely disorganized." She worked her way through one of the piles of papers, looking for a specific piece that she expected would have been folded into quarters because of its large size. As she plowed through the various letters of permission, geographical surveys, computer prints, and other odd scrawlings on pressed cellulose, she could see that just about everything she´d expected to find done by the time she arrived had in fact been done. She found the piece she was looking for and unfolded it over the rest of what lay there. It was a detailed geographical map of a portion of London, a good chunk of which had been involved in the Great Fire of 1666. As part of the final thesis Janie would compare the chemical content of the soil in the burned sections against that of the unburned sections, and the final dig sites were laid out carefully on the map before her. Most of the sites were marked with red X´s, indicating that permission to dig had been acquired and that the necessary paperwork was already completed. A few were marked with the green X´s that meant permission had been given verbally, but the papers still had to be chased down. "Wow, you´ve been busy, I see," she said. "Really, Caroline, this is nice work." Caroline Porter beamed, pleased to receive Janie´s acknowledgment of what had been a marvel of organization on her part. "I know when you look at this mess"--she gestured at the table--"it doesn´t look like much. I was hoping to get it all into a binder before I picked you up at ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ann Benson
• Edition: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format A
• Sortie: 11.05.1998
• EAN: 9780440225102
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22510-2
• Pages: 688
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Thèmes: The Plague Tales; The Plague Tales
• Catégorie: Littérature > Suspense