ONE OF THE DARK PLACES

Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- This novel, follows three men on their quest to solve the mystery of scrub typhus, a virulent fever that reached virtually epidemic proportions among allied troops in Burma and India during World War II. Sam Brill, the Army doctor who first identified the fever, Colonel Crowder, the man who organized the field study, and Nathan Devlin, the specialist in typhus, all offer accounts on this fever and how, despite their efforts, scrub typhus persevered. In One of the Dark Places, Davis recreates the atmosphere he himself experienced with a sense of immediacy. Medical details and dramatic scenes lend this work an air of expertise and sophistication. . .(Fiction). . .