Civil Blood
Ann McMillan · 2001
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As Ann McMillan's Civil Blood opens, some Richmonders pour into the streets in celebration of a Union warship's defeat, while others--slaves, free blacks, Union sympathizers--mourn in secret. Unknown to all of them, another disaster threatens, quieter but more effective than warships: smallpox, the most contagious plague the world has ever known. The detective team of Narcissa Powers, a white widow turned Confederate nurse, and Judah Daniel, a free black herbalist, encounters a frightening possibility: the victims are being intentionally infected by tainted money flowing through Richmond's network of speculators and profiteers.
First sentence: Josiah Harrald wondered if he might already be dead.
Book details
- Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780142001240
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