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Midnight Plague
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by Gregg Keizer
Sales Rank: 603698
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
Published by: Putnam Adult August 18, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0399153195
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0399153198
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. An impressive follow-up to Keizer's debut, The Longest Night, this grandly imagined, character-driven novel of action and intrigue overflows with biological brinksmanship and nerve-jangling suspense. With less than a week before the Allies launch their D-Day armada, Frank Brink, M.D., is working with the British to develop antibiotics against anthrax, which other members of his team plan to use as a biological weapon. Called in to examine the corpses of 13 Jews ferried across the channel by a French fisherman and his petite daughter, Alix Pilon, an unlikely leader in the French Resistance, Brink discovers that they've been purposefully infected with pneumonic plague, one of the world's most virulent diseases. Racing against time, Brink is sent with Alix and two British commandos to find the German lab responsible and destroy it before the invasion is launched. Meanwhile, German mastermind SS Major Doktor Wollenstein has ordered the civilian Kriminalpolizei detective Kirn to find the missing Jews, telling him they are infected with typhus (though Kirn knows otherwise, and that his countrymen are in grave danger). With D-Day fast approaching, Brink finds an entire village already verging on an epidemic, as moral conflicts build tension to a stunning climax in this epic parable on the ethics of war. (Aug.)
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From Booklist
In this clever cross of biothriller and historical espionage novel, a Nazi doctor perfecting an unstoppable airborne strain of plague that may turn the tide of war against the massing Allied invasion loses a truckload of Jewish "guinea pigs" who are smuggled across the English Channel. Frank Brink, an American doctor who has abandoned a British anthrax project after it killed his best girl--and who now finds himself in the tenuous moral position of seeking a cure to pestilence so that one side may use it against the other--follows a trail of blackened corpses across enemy lines searching for the plague's source in the French countryside. Meanwhile, a German cop looks for the missing Jews. No Eye of the Needle, the action-crammed story's credibility suffers from galloping plot complications, most traceable to the exasperating impetuousness of ingenue freedom-fighter Alix, whose raison d'etre seems to be throwing a spanner in the works at almost every turn. Follett fans may pardon these excesses as the bodies pile up, and the clock ticks down to either D-Day or doomsday. David Wright
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Reader Reviews
What if the Nazis had biological weapons that they were planning to use against the Allies during D-Day? What if the British had their own secret weapon that they were planning to use against the Germans? These and other questions are at the heart of "Midnight Plague," a spy thriller by Gregg Keizer. The hero is Frank Brink, an American doctor who has conducted research on anthrax. However, his heart is not in destroying lives but in saving them. A complicated series of events brings Frank together with Alix, a Frenchwoman whose father died after rescuing a group of Jews who had deliberately been infected with plague. Alix is obsessed with Juniper, a Brit who has a hidden agenda that he is not revealing. Wollenstein is a calculating German scientist whose dreams of personal glory rest on the cruel experiments he is conducting using Jewish prisoners. He wants to spread plague among the Allies and come up with an antidote that will protect the Germans. Kirn is a German policeman whose loyalty to his country is shaken by the horrors he sees around him. The paths of these and other characters intersect at some point during the novel. Will the Nazis succeed in stopping the Allied invasion using their deadly weapon, or will Brink and his cohorts somehow stop them in time? "Midnight Plague" has an intriguing premise, but Keizer's convoluted plot and sluggish pacing undermine the effectiveness of his story. The characters are one-dimensional, the love story is tepid, the action scenes are implausible, and the plot is cluttered and incoherent. There are other better written and more exciting spy thrillers that I do recommend. Among them are Greg Rucka's "Private Wars," Brad Thor's "Blowback," and Stella Rimington's "At Risk."
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