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First UK trade (large sized) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. UNREAD condition and comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout. Author’s debut novel. “What would happen if the deadliest disease known to man, the Plague, were to return? Samuel ‘Sailor’ Doyle has transferred from Vice to Homicide in the Virginia State Police. He has a mistress, an alcohol problem, a prescription drug dependency, and a burgeoning self-loathing that alienates his wife and family. On Friday 3 July, the rookie investigator is assigned to a double homicide on a rural farm some 15 miles outside Richmond. One of the victims has been interred in a makeshift tomb, while the other is stuck half-in, half-out of a hope chest overflowing with cat litter. And the farm is covered with dead bodies: dozens of cats, sheep, goats, cows and one dead horse. The mentally handicapped daughter of the victims, Carl and Claire Bruckner, is missing. What Doyle fails to realise as he follows the various clues is that wherever he goes, he is spreading disease – and not just any disease, but Yersinia pestis. The plague. A deliciously creepy blend of horror, thriller and police procedural that will chill you to the bone…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH