Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Time of the Fourth Horseman (B)

.. HYPNOTIC." —Frank M. Robinson

'Yarbro has a fine way with the wicked and a clean, terse style.. .a versatile and distinctive talent."

— KIRKUS REV1EW

Twenty-first century medical science has wiped out all of the deadly diseases. Yet in one American city patients have begun to flock to the hospitals with smallpox, diphtheria and all the other enemies that were supposed to have been defeated forever, plung-ing the over-populated city into an epidemie of death, violence, and destruction.

But even morę mysterious than the sudden out-break of disease is why the major hospitals are shutting their doors—why the medical establishment is very calmly letting an entire city die....

"Her writing flashes with a dark and bloody vividness."

— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY