{"product_id":"the-plague-tales-9780440225102","title":"The Plague Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.”—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 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. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nearly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages  to the biological police state of our near future, \u003ci\u003eThe Plague Tales\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Plague Tales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Benson reveals a formidable talent as she blends historical fiction with a near-future bio-thriller.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harrowing . . . Will give readers both nightmares and thrills . . . A carefully woven page-turner from which . . . Robin Cook and Michael Crichton could learn.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A hard-to-put-down thriller steeped in historical fiction and bio-tech sci-fi.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMiddlesex News\u003c\/i\u003e (Mass.)\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62246940148099,"sku":"9780440225102","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780440225102.jpg?v=1785409932","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-plague-tales-9780440225102","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}