The Judas Strain - James Rollins
THE JUDAS STRAIN
A SIGMA FORCE NOVEL
JAMES ROLLINS
TO CAROLYN MCCRAY
who read all my earliest scribblings
and didn’t laugh too much
The pestilence came first to the town of Kaffa on the Black Sea. There the mighty Mongolian Tartars waged siege upon the Italian Genoese, merchants and traders. Plague struck the Mongol armies with burning boils and bloody expulsions. Struck with great malice, the Mongol lords used their siege catapults to cast their diseased dead over the Genoes ...