A powerful, sharply detailed story of creeping dread from one of the country's most daring and inventive novelists.
What young reporter could resist the opportunity to be the only journalist allowed into a town on which a news blackout has been imposed? When James Maxwell is invited to the town of Carrick, he discovers the entire population is suffering from a strange and unnatural plague. Is a poisoner at work?
- ISBN10 031211320X
- ISBN13 9780312113209
- Publish Date 1 November 1994 (first published 23 September 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Edition Us ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 259
- Language English