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The Black Death
by: Gwyneth Cravens, John S. Marr

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780345271556
ISBN: 0345271556
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 354
Publication Date: February 12, 1978
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: February 12, 1978
Studio: Ballantine Books
Sales Rank: 1578432

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- Amazing how the world changes in thirty years.
Gwyneth Cravens and John S. Marr, The Black Death (Dutton, 1977)

Mediocre disaster-of-the-week novel about (unsurprisingly) an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in New York City. Relatively readable for a seventies thriller novel of its type, but the casual sexism and racism is far more shocking today than the actual subject matter. Still, if you're into the literary version of the disease-of-the-week TV movies of the seventies, there are certainly worse ways to pass the time than this. ** ½

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- This book was simply amazing!!!
Check it out and also check out Kate Jackson, Kathleen Robertson, and Jeffrey Nordling in Quiet Killer. It's a nice tv movie version of this book.

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- A pleasing 70s-style medical thriller
This 1977 novel is a fast-paced and entertaining example of a 70's thriller, and worth picking up if you can find it in a used bookstore or rummage sale. The subject matter remains relevant to comtemporary audiences, particularly in the wake of the anthrax bioterror outbreak in the eastern US in the Fall 2001. "The Black Death" will appeal to the Robin Cook / Michael Crichton audience as well as anyone with an interest in medical thrillers.

The plot is straightforward: a teenage girl takes an up-close photograph of a wild rodent while vacationing in California, contracts the bacterium Yersinis pestis from it, and returns to New York City with a bad cough. What she thinks is the flu is actually highly virulent pnemonic plague, and soon a hooker and an apartment building doorman ... Read More

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- A fun and frightening forecast of a possible plague
This book helped spark my interest in epidemiology -- or should I say took it out of the boring tedium of academics and made it interesting. It was the precursor to the a genre that became popular within a few years of publication. What made the book fascinating was the author's nearly loving description of the organism Yersinia pestis and his command of the public health bureaucracy in a large city.

The story opens with a young woman returning from a camping trip in the western US, during which she was bitten by the flea vector of plague. Perhaps because she is very healthy, she progresses through the bubonic phase of the disease with little distress and becomes a pneumonic carrier -- that is she is able to transmit the bacteria directly via her respiratory tract.

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