The Fourth Horseman Author:Andrew Nikiforuk "By killing millions of people in short periods of time, epidemics have crumbled empires, defeated armies, and irrevocably changed the way we live and love. But mass die-offs do no arrive uninvited. I t takes a good dose of civilized provocation to get germs to go on a killing spree, and an even stronger effort to stop them once the dying has ... more »begun. In this unique and compelling history, Andrew Nikiforuk chronicles society's intimate relationship with disease and its continuing cooperation with the devastating Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse: Pestilence and Death."« less