Pestis 18

by Sharon Webb

The Black Plague--yersinia pestis--now genetically engineered into the new, even more horrifying form known as Pestis 18.

Two canisters of the virus are now in the hands of terrorists.

One had been planted in a large American city. If the terrorists do not receive a $500 million ransom, it will be opened...

The other canister is on an island off the coast of Georgia. Captured at the island's inn are Bruton Farrier, an American Congressman, his girlfriend Sally Strickland, a very important British politician, an aging romance novelist and her secretary, an unhappy teenager and her younger brother, and the staff and owner of the inn.

All are hostages--pawns in a play for supremacy that threatens the entire country with incurable plague.

Genres: Thriller

416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Sharon Webb began writing with a poem published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1963. She initially used the masculine pseudonym "Ron Webb" and appeared only on occasion. In 1979 she became more productive and largely worked under her own name. Her works often concern medical issues or advances in medicine. Along with science fiction she has also written medically oriented thrillers.
Sharon Webb began her writing career at the age of eleven when she won her first author’s award for an original work of poetry.

Reviews

[Lorraine McCleary · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fast thriller with an engineered pestis (Bubonic Plague) held by terrorists and set off on (most likely) Jekyll island. Or is it terrorists or did our own country set it off?