Epidemic Author:Frank G. Slaughter To residents of Manhattan, it was just another blistering hot day in August. No one knew that on that day death, in the form of a ghostly exodus of vermin-infested rats, had moved silently into the streets of the city. — The ghastly plague, known as the Black Death, was loose in Manhattan. Behind the germ warfare was an unknown enemy and a willin... more »g underworld who joined forces in an attempt to wipe out the biggest city on the earth!« less