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Product Details
Howard Books, August 2009
Trade Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN-10: 1416569715
ISBN-13: 9781416569718
Description
TIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS
An ancient disease, a modern pandemic, and the one person who offers hope for a cure has been dead for 350 years
In 1666, a horrible disease took the lives of almost every person in Eyam (pronounced Eem), England. Helping the sick and the dying was the mysterious and ghostlike Blue Monk, whose strange appearance terrified even those who were comforted by him.
More than three centuries later the disease has returned, more virulent than before. Every day more people are infected; every hour more die.
The lives of millions rest in the hands of a bio-team -- the Time Scene Investigators -- that studies history to find cures for modern diseases. But the newest member of the team, Dr. Mark Carlson, has suffered a heartbreaking loss.
With every tick of the clock the world approaches a global pandemic. A race against time becomes a race across continents -- to find a frightened boy who is carrying and spreading the disease wherever he goes, to thwart the machinations of corporate greed and fanatical sabotage, and to find the connection between a great tragedy of the past and a potential catastrophe of the present. Our present.
This book may become tomorrow's headline.
How did you come to write this book?
My co-author, Paul McCusker, loves speculative fiction that explores the dramatic possibilities of normal people in abnormal situations. When he was visiting relatives in the small village of Eyam in England, he was struck by its story when the Black Plague nearly destroyed the village. What was even more intriguing to him was the story of the sacrificial actions of the villagers and the modern medical mysteries triggered by the event. He began to work on an idea that became TSI, and quickly realized he would need help from someone with a writing and a medical background -- so, he gave me a phone call. Paul and I met not too long after I joined Focus on the Family in early 2001, as Vice President and Family Physician in Residence. We admired each other’s work and began to build a friendship that has only deepened through the years. For me, it has been a terrific privilege and honor to work with Paul on this book. And, we’re already hard at work on the sequel, "Time Scene Investigators: The Influenza Bomb." Best of all, we’ve had a ton of fun working together.
"I was on the edge of my seat from the very first page of The Gabon Virus and didn't breathe again until I turned the last page. Fast-paced and gripping, this book will make us all think, This could happen."
-- Debbie Macomber, New York Times bestselling novelist
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