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Blurb: “Loaded and lethal—a living time bomb loose in the Wessex countryside...
The DOOMSDAY CARRIER by Victor Canning, author of The Kingsford Mark, etc.
A master's skill in intrigue and an equal deftness in the portrayal of animals combine here in a highly original novel of suspense.
Charlie is a specimen chimpanzee maintained by the Ministry of Defence for dubious experimental purposes. Soon after he has been injected with a devastating plague bacillus, he escapes. At first an innocent wanderer under summer skies, in only
twenty-one days he will become infectious, and a population of millions will then be in hideous danger.
Discreetly the authorities mount a full-scale search; but fearing the political and international consequences, they dare not reveal the sordid truth. As a result the search is compromised at every turn, while risks and tensions mount-to the very dawn of doomsday.”