New York: Penguin, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in what was the near future: it is 2010, and the United States is ravaged by disease, and stifled by martial law. A lethal virus known as V-CIDS strikes without discrimination and the government responds by isolating those infected into specially designed internment camps. Author's afterword. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-451-454022.