Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Bleak mid winter


BLEAK MIDWINTER, by Peter Millar, A Crackling thriller, Set in the Oxford back ground.
Rajiv Mahendra , trainee doctor at John Radcliffe hospital encounters a patient with symptoms which are horrifyingly familiar in India this disease known as the bubonic plague and the last time it occurred in a large scale in Europe, it wiped out one third of the entire population.Rajiv's friend , an American history student , Daniel Warren finds out about the patient and driven by morbid curiosity sneaks into the hospital so as to have look at the patient concerned. This had been discovered by a local news paper reporter from the local news paper. the reporter got wind of the story. Daniel wants her to be kept quiet, so Daniel reveals about the patient , that he had been working on a building site at a certain village which has been once called as Nether Ditch ford , where the entire population died of the same plague during the year 1349. could it be possible that there are plague bacterial spores which may have been roused from their dormant state?

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