Spiced with anecdotes, facts and chilling reconstructions, this investigation of the plague in the modern world tells the story of a tense race between two riva... » 

Spiced with anecdotes, facts and chilling reconstructions, this investigation of the plague in the modern world tells the story of a tense race between two rival scientists: Alexandre Yersin - rigorous, solitary, cerebral - and the suave Kitasaka, unscrupulous, enigmatic, careless. «