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Expedition to Svalbard
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by Steve Garry (Author) (edit contributors)

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A journalist accompanies an international team of biologists to explore the permafrost for genetic remnants of a deadly disease of the Middle Ages, and they are completely unprepared for what they unearth.

In a quest for Nobel prizes, publishing rights, and bio-patent riches, virus... read more

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A journalist accompanies an international team of biologists to explore the permafrost for genetic remnants of a deadly disease of the Middle Ages, and they are completely unprepared for what they unearth.

In a quest for Nobel prizes, publishing rights, and bio-patent riches, virus... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A journalist accompanies an international team of biologists to explore the permafrost for genetic remnants of a deadly disease of the Middle Ages, and they are completely unprepared for what they unearth.

In a quest for Nobel prizes, publishing rights, and bio-patent riches, virus hunters the world over search for antiquity's deadly pathogens that may lie dormant in the frozen tundra. In this story, microbe-obsessed detectives push the envelope of risk as they pursue the source of one of the most lethal and mysterious outbreaks in human history - something the inhabitants of the day feared even more than the Black Death.

Is 21st Century Man, let alone his immune system, prepared to face the consequences of this reckless archaeology?

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Alone on a turbulent seascape is a small carrack, 65 feet, "Regis Praemium" at the bow.

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ACT 1: Then and Now
1528: Plague Ship
Today: Failure in Norway
Disbanding - Or Not
In Contact with Svalbard
The Next Project: Sudor Anglicus
1528: The Sick Man
ACT 2: The Dig
Today: Arrival in Svalbard
The Base
The Dig Site
Digging Down to the Past
Ground Penetrating Radar
Early Results
Precautions
The Corpse
Examination
Visit to Longyearbyen
The Biosafety-3 Lab
1528: The Final Victim Succumbs
Today: The First Victim
Defining a Genetic Monster
Radio Silence and Isolation
More Victims
And More Victims
ACT 3: The Monster
Escape Attempt
Containment
Breakout
Finale: Rescue or Disaster

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  1. Steve Garry (Author)

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Reading Level: Adults

One f-bomb, a few sh?t. Mostly just disturbing medical evidence.

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