Epidemic Author:Slaughter, Frank G. Epidemic! is the story of imminent panic - the immobilization by the Black Death, ghastly curse of the Middle Ages, of over 3 million human beings - and the exploitation of the crisis by Communist subversives. It is the gripping drama of plague and underworld warfare loose in our nation's greatest metropolis - a debacle that could wipe out the ... more »people of New York City within days.« less