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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780778324584
ISBN number: 0778324583
Label: Mira
Manufacturer: Mira
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: January 01, 2008
Publishing house: Mira
Sale Popularity Level: 102359
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What can stand between America and a plague that devours human bodies from the inside out?
Cases of sudden, unexplained deaths—marked by rapid decomposition—are cropping up across the U.S. Their cause: a supermicrobe that causes flesh-eating disease so aggressive that victims die within an hour and infect dozens more.
Suspecting bioterrorists at work, Homeland Security is willing to bend any rule to find the source of the deadly infection, even if it means resurrecting a 'dead' Iraqi biochemist, long held in a CIA ghost prison. The disease's unwitting creator risked her life trying to destroy it. Her sister tried, too, and landed in prison. But time is running out as they search for the one person who might hold the key.…
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The eighth novel in Jim and Nikoo McGoldrick's popular Jan Coffey series imagines a post-9/11 world of danger and paralyzing, if not always warranted, fear. It's a world of microbiology research labs funded by global corporations and national governments of varying competence and moral intent. The "deadliest strain" of the title is a flesh-eating microbe that induces rapid death, decomposition and contagion. When several victims of the infection are discovered near Portland, Maine, the US Homeland Security Agency suspects terrorism. Deadly Strain is an intriguing story with dramatic twists, and vibrant, if mostly cinema-style, characters [including the African-American US President John Penn, introduced in Coffey's earlier book, Silent Waters].
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Americans begin dying from a flesh eating disease which can kill within minutes. American intelligence agencies are desperately trying to determine how the disease is spread, what it is, and how to cure it.
Meanwhile a scientist, Dr. Rohaf Banaz, has been "detained" in a number of American prisons throughout the world for five years. These are "black" prisons meaning civilians do not know who has been taken, where they are, how to communicate with the "detainees" or even if they are dead or alive. What the jailers do not know is that the woman they have mistreated (that's putting it nicely) for five years is actually the sister of Dr. Rohaf Banaz, Dr. Fahimah Banaz.
When Fahimah is released into the custody of a Homeland Security scientist, Austyn Newman, he figures out that she is not Rahaf and they begin a journey to find the missing Rahaf who has been searching for a cure to the bacteria she inadvertently created.
This book gives a horrifying view into the "detention" of men and women who "are suspected of having ties to suspected terrorists". They are stripped of all civil rights, are held in deplorable conditions, and are assumed "guilty until proven innocent" which flies in the face of all America represents. The fact that only a few have ever been charged out of the hundreds taken is telling. As Fahimah said "we are all victims of the actions of those who govern our countries".
I found the information about the Kurds, their pain and triumph, their customs and traditions, their strength and how they had literally risen out of the ashes fascinating and uplifting. We tend to think of Iraqi women as uneducated, downtrodden, forced to hide behind veils. While that may be true in many cases it's an inaccurate stereotype for others, particularly the women of Kurdistan. This was a good book but the ending was a little sad.
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I judge a book partly by how quick I read through it. This one I read in 12 hours. Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick have put together a real page-turner that I could not put down. It isn't non-stop action, but it's non-stop suspense as you try to work through what is happening as you read the pages. I appreciated the factual insight into Kurdish culture and liked the way it was woven into the storyline. I will definitely be reading more books by this husband/wife duo who goes by the pseudonym of Jan Coffey.
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The book is described as a biological thriller, in reality it is a rambling history of the Kurdish people under Saddam's regime. The "deadliest strain" is an after thought, and makes up about a quarter of the book. The rest follows an Iraqi scientist who explains in great detail the horrors the Kurds experienced. As an example, a chapter describing the killer strain is 7 pages, a discusion of documents needed to cross the Iraqi border goes on for 10 pages. Not to mention the description of buying clothes, drinking tea, and telling jokes that just adds to the 400 pages of non-story. Will not read another Jan Coffey book.
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I have read several other Jan Coffey books and this is not up to par with the others that i have read. Each time the pace would pick up they would return to the 2 protagonists and it would slow back down to a snail's pace. It was a good premise, but the book didn't live up to it.
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