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A scent of new-mown hay / John Blackburn ; with a new introduction by Darren Harris-Fain.

by Blackburn, John, 1923-1993.

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Valancourt Books, 2013, c1958.

Biological warfare -- Fiction.

9781939140593 (trade pbk.)

193 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

With a plot featuring Cold War intrigue, Nazi mad scientists, and a pandemic that threatens to destroy humanity by mutating people into fungoid monsters, it is not hard to see why A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and an instant science-fiction classic. After a British ship's crew and a remote Russian village are wiped out in mysterious and horrible fashion, General Charles Kirk of British Foreign Intelligence sets out to investigate. As the plague spreads to England, Kirk's frantic search leads him from the desolate tundra of Russia to the ruins of a Nazi camp, the site of unthinkable wartime atrocities. But who is responsible? Is it a Soviet experiment gone horribly wrong, the work of a depraved madman, or something else entirely? And can it be stopped?

Science fiction.

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