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A Scent of New-Mown Hay (Paperback)
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A Scent of New-Mown Hay (Paperback)
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"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant
pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - "Detroit News"
" S]pine-chilling . . . a far-reaching plot linking the horror
camps of the Nazis, the frozen wastes of Russia and the work of
British Secret Intelligence. . . . T]his is 'must' reading for
horror fans." - "Calgary Herald"
"I began to read: and then read and read and read." - John
Creasey, "Books of the Month"
"Good, insomniac science-fiction." - "Listener"
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?
In this, his first and still best-known novel, the prolific John
Blackburn (1923-1993) introduced the formula he was to employ so
successfully in his career, seamlessly blending mystery, horror,
and science fiction to create a thrilling bestseller that readers
found impossible to put down. This edition, the first in more than
thirty years, includes a new introduction by Prof. Darren
Harris-Fain and a reproduction of the scarce original jacket art by
Peter Curl.
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