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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0449911020
ISBN-13: 9780449911020
Aug 1998
Publisher: Fawcett Books
325 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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| Size | | Length: | 325 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 22.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
From the author of The Genesis Code (LJ 3/1/97) comes another page-turning scientific thriller. Frank Daly, an investigative reporter pursuing a story about influenza, has been invited to join a scientific team bound for the Arctic in order to take tissue samples from miners who died during the 1918 pandemic. A storm makes Daly miss the launch, stranding him in Russia, and when the scientists reach their site, they are met by the FBI and find that the bodies they expected to examine are gone. With vividly alive characters and intricate plotting, the story moves swiftly toward a somewhat subdued conclusion. The "first horseman" of the title is the villain Solange, leader of a cult called the Temple of Light. The cult aims to begin the Apocalypse by cultivating and spreading a deadly flu virus; cult members will be spared by virtue of a closely guarded vaccine. Unnerving and compelling, this will leave readers wondering for years to come about the next flu outbreak. Highly recommended. Shirley Gibson Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI
Wright
Recent reports that the 1918 flu virus, source of history's most lethal pandemic, might be preserved inside the bodies of five Norwegian miners buried beneath the permafrost on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen make this novel especially timely. Moving in dated chapters through the spring into the summer months of 1998, this tense thriller turns that story into a "secular apocalypse," which begins when a North Korean medical officer flees across the DMZ to report that his isolated village was first devastated by a strange sickness, then destroyed and completely buried by the military. A team of American microbiologists, whose application to exhume the Spitsbergen bodies has been denied, suddenly finds its expedition funded by a foundation from which they hadn't even sought money. Frank Daly, a Washington Post reporter scheduled to join the expedition, is grounded in Archangel, and when he meets the icebreaker Rex Mundi on its return to Norway, he finds the pier closed and no one from the expedition willing to talk to him a sure incentive for any true reporter to pursue the story to the death, which Daly very nearly does. Although the setup is in some ways more gripping than the action payoff of the novel's second half, pseudonymous D.C. reporter Case (The Gemini Code) breathes excitement into his topical story. Especially memorable is the microwave death of one character, leaving behind just a tiny handful of soot. (Aug.)
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Other Editions
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Audio, 1998 - $1.00 Save 94%
Audio, 1998 - $15.40 Save 78%
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Paperback, 1999 - $0.75 Save 90%
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