{"product_id":"9780440225102","title":"The Plague Tales","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBenson, Ann\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDell\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5\/11\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMass-market Paperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.”—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages  to the biological police state of our near future, \u003ci\u003eThe Plague Tales\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Plague Tales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Benson reveals a formidable talent as she blends historical fiction with a near-future bio-thriller.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harrowing . . . Will give readers both nightmares and thrills . . . A carefully woven page-turner from which . . . Robin Cook and Michael Crichton could learn.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A hard-to-put-down thriller steeped in historical fiction and bio-tech sci-fi.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMiddlesex News\u003c\/i\u003e (Mass.)\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Dell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43365868830975,"sku":"9780440225102","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780440225102_s600x595.jpg?v=1782151055","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780440225102","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}