{"product_id":"the-plague-tales","title":"The Plague Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Plague Tales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Benson reveals a formidable talent as she blends historical fiction with a near-future bio-thriller.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Harrowing . . . Will give readers both nightmares and thrills . . . A carefully woven page-turner from which . . . Robin Cook and Michael Crichton could learn.”—Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A hard-to-put-down thriller steeped in historical fiction and bio-tech sci-fi.”—Middlesex News (Mass.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ann Benson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49197315096859,"sku":"270001","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0513\/3238\/2886\/files\/9780440225102.jpg?v=1721329458","url":"https:\/\/www.lightlyusedbooks.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-plague-tales","provider":"Lightly Used Books LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}