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The Dying
A cult leader who accidentally comes into possession of a deadly new virus, uses it to gain power and wealth.
Cover Artist: Tom Hallman
Cover Artist: Tom Hallman
400 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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About the author
Leslie Alan Horvitz
33 books9 followersLeslie Alan Horvitz is a NY Times Best Selling author of over 31 novels and several works of non-fiction with editions of his books published around the world.
Leslie's most recent novel is medical thriller SynBio with his other books including The Memory Hole, The Donors, Double Blinded, The Dying and Causes Unknown.
Leslie is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most recently The Essential Book of Weather Folklore, The Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide, The Weather Tracker and Night Sky Tracker Eureka: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World.
To help write his medical thriller books, Leslie has researched epidemics ranging from Ebola and HIV in Zaire to Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone and Hantan Fever in China.
Leslie lives in New York City.
Leslie's most recent novel is medical thriller SynBio with his other books including The Memory Hole, The Donors, Double Blinded, The Dying and Causes Unknown.
Leslie is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most recently The Essential Book of Weather Folklore, The Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide, The Weather Tracker and Night Sky Tracker Eureka: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World.
To help write his medical thriller books, Leslie has researched epidemics ranging from Ebola and HIV in Zaire to Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone and Hantan Fever in China.
Leslie lives in New York City.
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March 16, 2008
Like a steak from Denny's, this book was hard to swallow and left me somewhat unsatisfied.
The premise of the book was somewhat lame, not exactly original and indeed, fairly unrealistic.
The only interesting part was reading randomly inserted quotes and articles from the influenza pandemic of 1918, where 40-50 million unfortunate souls died.
If only the author was one of them.
The premise of the book was somewhat lame, not exactly original and indeed, fairly unrealistic.
The only interesting part was reading randomly inserted quotes and articles from the influenza pandemic of 1918, where 40-50 million unfortunate souls died.
If only the author was one of them.
June 14, 2019
Not sure exactly what the author was trying to do with this. Great premise, but it got lost in personal drama that did not need to be there.
Want to read
May 18, 2009Book Jacket:
The body of the man lay frozen in the Alaskan wilderness
for nearly eighty years, encased in a thick layer of ice,
until uncovered by a lone trapper. How could the trapper
know that by excavating the corpse he might possibly doom
the world? For within the frozen flesh lies a dormant
danger waiting to be awakened, a highly contagious virus
for which there is no known cure.
As the epidemic and the panic spread across the globe,
millions will die a terrible death, their blood thickened
in their veins. And one scientist will struggle to solve
the riddle of the plague, to unravel a medical mystery
that threatens mankind...and to uncover a conspiracy of
greed, madness and murder.
The body of the man lay frozen in the Alaskan wilderness
for nearly eighty years, encased in a thick layer of ice,
until uncovered by a lone trapper. How could the trapper
know that by excavating the corpse he might possibly doom
the world? For within the frozen flesh lies a dormant
danger waiting to be awakened, a highly contagious virus
for which there is no known cure.
As the epidemic and the panic spread across the globe,
millions will die a terrible death, their blood thickened
in their veins. And one scientist will struggle to solve
the riddle of the plague, to unravel a medical mystery
that threatens mankind...and to uncover a conspiracy of
greed, madness and murder.
September 10, 2021
audible:I really liked this book.It seems that the only way to avoid the plague is to turn your family and money over to the local cult. Jack de Golia was a very good narrator for this book.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'
July 30, 2007
It was an interesting read. One of those books where one day lasts a really long time, or so it seems. Generally a good book. Fast read for me.
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