BLANK: Book One of SvenssonWorld Chronicles - Softcover

Bob Di Giovanni, Brian Ballantine

9781983000768: BLANK: Book One of SvenssonWorld Chronicles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1983000760 ISBN 13: 9781983000768

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Blank is back! The plague that killed 70% of the world's adult population in less than 72 hours, then suddenly stopped, has returned after a three-year respite. Once again, people are dying suddenly, with a peaceful "blank" expression on their face and all color drained from their eyes.Taniqua Winkle, the adopted daughter of America's most prominent televangelist, is now running both his Ministry and a social services empire catering to the orphans of Blank. After the Blank-related death of a close friend, Taniqua and her assistant Bryon Samuels, a failed missionary but a man of other invaluable talents, join forces with Colonel Mark Armstrong, head of the Logistics Command and the man most responsible for picking up the pieces of a Blank-devastated nation, to renew the search for a cause and a cure.The pressure is mounting. People are dying. Key players in the research three years ago have disappeared. The search is on for Krishna Patel, the pathologist and former science child prodigy who kept his small flame of medical research into Blank alive long after others had extinguished theirs; Henrik Svensson, the enigmatic former billionaire, inventor, and philanthropist who lost his family to Blank - and his fortune and most of his memory in its aftermath; Philippe Dubois, the former Director of the Svensson Institute who headed up the original investigation into Blank; and Matilda Newell, Dubois' protege and a distinguished genomics researcher.The inquiry discovers unsettling truths about the human origins of Blank, its apparent irreversibility, and a putative "cure" driven more by greed than hope that threatens to be worse than the disease. The mystery is solved - but at a price, while atonement is made, retribution is exacted, and the secret to beating Blank is revealed.

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