The Gabon Virus » (Reading Group Guide Series)

Paul McCusker is the Peabody Award-winning writer and director of the audio drama Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Freedom and of the multiple award-winning audio dramatizations of The Chronicles of Narnia, Les Miserables, A Christmas Carol, Little Women, and his original series The Father Gilbert Mysteries. He is also a writer and director for the long-running children's program Adventures in Odyssey, writing not only over 250 audio episodes, but scripting two of the animated video series and eighteen spin-off novels. For adults, he has written the Gold Medallion-nominated Epiphany, The Mill House, and A Season of Shadows. His plays and musicals have been performed in community theatres across the country. He currently has over thirty books in print. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Walter L. Larimore, MD, has been called one of "America's best-known family physicians" and listed in ?Distinguished Physicians of America,? ?The Best Doctors in America,? and ?Who's Who in America.? As a medical journalist, he has hosted the award-winning cable TV show, Ask the Family Physician, on Fox's Health Network (1995-2000) and the nationally distributed Focus on Your Family's Health radio and TV features (2001-2005). As an award-winning writer, he was awarded the 2004 Christianity Today Book Award for co-writing Going Public with Your Faith: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work. He has been a Gold Medallion Book Award finalist three times--for the Going Public book and small-group videoseries, as well as his book The Highly Healthy Child. He also authored the popular Bryson City Tales books. He lives in Monument, Colorado.

In 1666, a horrible disease took the lives of almost every person in Eyam (pronounced Eem), England. Helping the sick and the dying was the mysterious and ghostlike Blue Monk, whose strange appearance terrified even those who were comforted by him.

More than three centuries later the disease has returned, more virulent than before. Every day more people are infected; every hour more die.

The lives of millions rest in the hands of a bio-team — the Time Scene Investigators — that studies history to find cures for modern diseases. But the newest member of the team, Dr. Mark Carlson, has suffered a heartbreaking loss.

With every tick of the clock the world approaches a global pandemic. A race against time becomes a race across continents — to find a frightened boy who is carrying and spreading the disease wherever he goes, to thwart the machinations of corporate greed and fanatical sabotage, and to find the connection between a great tragedy of the past and a potential catastrophe of the present. Our present.