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Loading... The Devil's Workshop: A Novel (edition 2000)by Stephen J. Cannell
Work InformationThe Devil's Workshop by Stephen J. Cannell
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In the bowels of a super-secret bio-weapons lab in Maryland, doom in its most insidious form is being refined. They told USC grad student Stacy Richardson that the death of her noted microbiologist husband was suicide, but nothing will convince her of that. Now only her own death will keep her from the truth... They told "Lucky" Cunningham he was doing his patriotic duty, but not about the terrible plague he was bringing home with him from the war. Now, with nothing more in his life to lose, he's riding the rails across America--straight into the heart of a nightmare too horrifying to contemplate... White supremacist Reverand Fannon Kincaid told his hobo acolytes that one day their racial "enemies" would perish. Now he holds in his possession the unthinkable means to an unspeakable end... Civilization's final drama is about to unfold--as busy hands construct doomsday at... The Devil's Workshop No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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