In the summer of 1913, under the cover of London’s perpetual smoggy dusk, two brilliant minds are pitted against each other....

Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown...

A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national best-selling author of The American Plague....