In an Oxford hospital, intern Rajiv Mahendra encounters a patient with rare symptoms that are disturbingly familiar. In India, the disease is known as bubonic plague. The last time it occurred on a large scale in Europe, it was known as the Black Death, killing nearly a third of the population. Driven by morbid curiosity, history student Daniel Warren slips into the hospital to see the patient, where he is discovered by a reporter from a local newspaper. In a misguided attempt to keep her quiet, Warren reveals that the patient had been working on a building site that was once an old plague pit. Could this long-dormant scourge have been reawakened? It seems impossible, but is it?
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'The mise en scene for is the city of Oxford itself; its byways lovingly described here just as they are in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse books. There is only one suitable word for Bleak Midwinter - infectious. Pass it on' Daily Mail 'A touch of Dexter ... and the intrigue of Le Carre' Daily Mail 'Peter Millar's research is faultless ... first-rate' Independent 'A fast-moving informative thriller which keeps you turning the pages' Oxford Times
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In an Oxford hospital, intern Rajiv Mahendra encounters a patient with rare symptoms that are disturbingly familiar. In India, the disease is known as bubonic plague. The last time it occurred on a large scale in Europe, it was known as the Black Death, killing nearly a third of the population. Driven by morbid curiosity, history student Daniel Warren slips into the hospital to see the patient, where he is discovered by a reporter from a local newspaper. In a misguided attempt to keep her quiet, Warren reveals that the patient had been working on a building site that was once an old plague pit. Could this long-dormant scourge have been reawakened? It seems impossible… but is it? Peter Millar is a former Foreign Correspondent for London’s SUNDAY TIMES. KIRKUS REVIEWS called his earlier book, Stealing Thunder,“a solid piece of work… absorbing and intelligent.”
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