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THE PILLARS OF MIDNIGHT (1957) by Elleston Trevor
This book was one of the first of a new breed of medical thrillers dealing with threats at the microscopic scale, spawned by anxieties over germ warfare (and which can be said to have peaked with Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda … Continue reading