Blood Winter - Hardcover

Patrick, William

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ISBN 10: 0670827894 ISBN 13: 9780670827893

Publisher: Viking, 1990

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A British spy and an American surgeon operating undercover in World War II Berlin find their loyalties challenged by a beautiful but mysterious researcher at the suspicious Institute for Infectious Diseases

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From Publishers Weekly:

In the grim winter of 1916-17, just before America officially joins the Allies in WW I, undercover British agents prowl Berlin, trying to verify a rumor that the Germans have developed a deadly strain of infectious disease for use as a weapon. Also involved in the search is Eli Gordon, an American physician whose life has been torn asunder by the death of his young daughter. His investigation leads to a German colonel, head of the chemical armaments ministry, who recently died in bed with a beautiful young woman. The mystery woman proves to be an Allied sympathizer, a researcher at the Institute for Infectious Diseases who has made a secret medical breakthrough and who also knows the truth about the Germans' supposed secret weapon. She and Gordon must escape Germany with their knowledge before the British recklessly unleash chemical weaponry with potentially disastrous consequences. This well-done thriller closes with an unexpected and properly dark surprise. 35,000 first printing; $35,000 ad/promo; BOMC alternate.
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From Library Journal:

This brisk medical thriller, set in Germany in 1915, is as dark and distinctive (and as violent) as its title. Patrick, author of Spirals (LJ 8/83), has crafted another complex plot crowded with characters. Ira Gordon, an American surgeon sent to Berlin by the British Secret Service to investigate German chemical disease warfare, encounters a beautiful researcher who has created a crude form of penicillin at Berlin's Institute for Infectious Diseases. If she can survive the attempts on her life by German Intelligence, her discovery will revolutionize modern medicine. Meanwhile, Winston Churchill, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, plots to stem the German's tide of disease before it wipes out Western Europe. A challenging book for Robert Ludlum, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler fans.
- Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
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