The Second Angel
By Philip Kerr
1998
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July 2069: centennial of the Apollo 11 moon walk. What would Buzz Aldrin see if he were here? On Earth, plagues have destroyed the major food supplies, climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West, and a new and virulent virus—P2—has infected Earth's population, bringing radical change in economic, political, and social structures. P2 is curable—but only with an infusion of uninfected blood. Indeed, blood has become the currency of choice: It is banked, speculated in, traded, hoarded, but only by those wealthy enough (or healthy enough) to have a clean, uninfected supply. And the moon? It is now home to sex hotels and penal colonies. Home, too, to the "federal reserve" of blood banks—the most impregnable high-security installation in the world. It is the brainchild of one man—and he has every reason to destroy it. Acting on the most human of motives—revenge—he will take on the impossible. Unbeknownst to him, he will have help from a very strange source.
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Author
Philip Kerr
Author · 33 books
Philip Kerr was a British author. He was best known for his Bernie Gunther series of 13 historical thrillers and a children's series, Children of the Lamp, under the name P.B. Kerr. Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
