Author: Frank G. Slaughter
Publisher: Pocket 80938
Year: 1972  Print: 1 Cover Price: $1.95
Condition: Book Grades  Very Good Plus. Light wear
Genre:   Fiction/GGA/Medical
Pages: 296
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From the Author of Code Five, Doctor's Wives and Doctor's Daughters

High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, an archaeologist stumbles upon an an­cient tomb, unwittingly releasing the germs from a civilization doomed by a plague over 5,000 years ago. What happens when this deadly organism, for which there is no antidote, reap­pears, forms the basis of this sensational novel by the author of Code Five.

This is the story of one man in par­ticular—Dr. Grant Reed and the dedi­cated crew of the international hospital ship Mercy, as they set about the task of quarantining the first victims of a hideous plague. Set adrift by frightened Peruvians, the aging and crippled ship faces a hurricane, mutinous patients, and even a pair of great white sharks, grisly mascots of a ship of death. . . .

Frank Slaughter here takes on one of the most important and exciting subjects to be found among his novels—the complex, high-stakes world of interglobal medicine, taking us behind the public deeds to the private people whose courage can make the difference between today's flus . . . and tomor­row's headlines.

This is one of Frank Slaughter's fin­est medical suspense stories, a super­bly thrilling tale based on some all-too- real possibilities.