Patrick "Shep" Shepherd, a promising major league baseball pitcher before 9/11 who left his family to enlist in the US Armed Forces, manages to obtain the vaccine that could save the wife and child he abandoned when a scientist, who believes she has been "chosen" to bring about the end of the world, infects herself with a fast-acting version of the Black Death while in Manhattan.
- ISBN10 193514216X
- ISBN13 9781935142164
- Publish Date 10 October 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2021
- Imprint Variance Publishing LLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 487
- Language English