Plague Ship - Andre Norton, Paperback

• Release Date   5/24/2014
• ISBN-13   9781499667806 | 978-1-4996-6780-6
• ISBN   1499667809 | 1-4996-6780-9
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Andre Norton
• Andre Norton's Golden Age Adventure ---- The Solar Queen is returning to Earth with its valuable cargo, when crewmembers begin suffering from a strange and dangerous illness. Dane Thorson and his team must protect the ship from being destroyed at the hands of the Terran forces, who are fearful of the plague reaching Earth, while finding a cure for the disease which threatens to kill them all. "Some two hundred feet away a reef, often awash and stained with the purple scum, angled out into the sea in a long curve which formed a natural breakwater. This was the point of attack. But first the purple film must be removed so that land and sea dwellers could meet on common terms. The fire blazed up, eating hungrily into the driftwood. And from it ran the young Salariki with lighted brands, which at the water's edge they whirled about their heads and then hurled out onto the purple patches. Fire arose from the water and ran with frantic speed across the crests of the low waves, while the Salariki coughed and buried their noses in their perfume boxes, for the wind drove shoreward an overpowering stench."