The Devil's Workshop
by Stephen Cannell
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A biological weapon is developed by the U.S. Army to kill specific ethnic groups. It is discovered by microbiologist Stacy Richardson while investigating the death of her husband, also a microbiologist, who is said to have committed suicide while working on the base. Lots of people want the weapon to remain a secret and Stacy's discovery puts her life in danger.Tags
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Stacy Richardson is a feisty microbiology graduate student at the USC taking her final doctoral exams. in the middle of her "Quals" Stacy learns that her husband, head of the University's Microbiology Dept., has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where a super-secret-bio-weapons lab run by Admiral James G Zoll and known as the Devil's Workshop is located. Meanwhile, two train-riding hobos, "Lucky" Cunningham and "Hollywood Mike," are traveling near Vanishing Lake, Texas. Unbeknownst to them, a prison at Vanishing Lake is being used by Admiral Zoll and Dr Dexter DeMille, to test the newest generation of bio-weapons, called Prions.
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Stephen J. Cannell was born in Los Angeles, California on February 5, 1941. He was dyslexic and struggled through school. After graduating from the University of Oregon, he drove a truck for his father's home-decorating business and wrote TV scripts at night and on the weekends. His first writing successes were story ideas sold to Mission show more Impossible. Four years later, he sold a script for It Takes a Thief. In 1966 a script he submitted for Adam 12 so impressed the producers at Universal that they offered him the position of head writer. At Universal he wrote and helped create several TV shows including The Rockford Files, Baretta, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. He started his own production company in 1979, generating The A-Team, Riptide, Hunter, and 21 Jump Street. Other credits include Wiseguy, Renegade, and Silk Stalkings. He has scripted over 1,500 TV episodes and created or co-created over 40 programs. His first novel, The Plan, was published in 1995. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 15 novels including Final Victim, King Con, and the Shane Scully series. He died of complications associated with melanoma on September 30, 2010 at the age of 69. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Devil's Workshop
- Original title
- The Devil's Workshop
- Original publication date
- 2009-09
- People/Characters
- Stacy Richardson; Lucky Cunningham; Fannon Kincaid
- First words
- Wendell Kinney reached out and squeezed Stacy Richardson's hand for luck.
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- Languages
- Czech, English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
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