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FROM: Jesse Price <[removed]@indiana.edu>
REC'D: 3/27/02, 6:45 PM

Hello all,

I need some help remembering the title of a book I read 4 or 5 years
ago, and I'm hoping someone will know what the silly thing is called.
It's an action/adventure Tom Clancy-ish/Robin Cook-ish kind of book
(but I'm pretty sure not those authors). There's some kind of
experimentation with very bad diseases (like ebola or hanta virus),
and someone escapes, either a researcher or a subject (I think) and
boards an airplane, maybe in Germany. The person gets terribly sick
on the plane, thereby exposing all the other passengers. The Official
People in the destination country (U.S.?) find out that this escapee
has gotten on the airplane, and They refuse to let the plane land.
The plane gets diverted to Greenland, and ultimately the passengers
and plane crew stage a desperate getaway (I think at some point They
talk about blowing the plane up to eliminate the potential for
epidemic) involving "flying blind" through international airspace and
ultimately landing somewhere in Africa (again, I think).

Also, I'm not positively sure, but I think the title has military
overtones.

Please reply directly to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a bunch,
Jesse Price
[removed]@indiana.edu

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 3/27/02, 6:55 PM

Pretty sure this is PANDORA'S CLOCK by John Nance. I didn't think it was silly--I liked it! <g>

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library

>>> [removed]@indiana.edu 03/27 4:38 PM >>>
Hello all,

I need some help remembering the title of a book I read 4 or 5 years
ago, and I'm hoping someone will know what the silly thing is called.
It's an action/adventure Tom Clancy-ish/Robin Cook-ish kind of book
(but I'm pretty sure not those authors). There's some kind of
experimentation with very bad diseases (like ebola or hanta virus),
and someone escapes, either a researcher or a subject (I think) and
boards an airplane, maybe in Germany. The person gets terribly sick
on the plane, thereby exposing all the other passengers. The Official
People in the destination country (U.S.?) find out that this escapee
has gotten on the airplane, and They refuse to let the plane land.
The plane gets diverted to Greenland, and ultimately the passengers
and plane crew stage a desperate getaway (I think at some point They
talk about blowing the plane up to eliminate the potential for
epidemic) involving "flying blind" through international airspace and
ultimately landing somewhere in Africa (again, I think).

Also, I'm not positively sure, but I think the title has military
overtones.

Please reply directly to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a bunch,
Jesse Price
[removed]@indiana.edu

FROM: Jim Norman <[removed]@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us>
REC'D: 3/27/02, 7:06 PM

Sounds like John J. Nance - perhaps his book Pandora's Clock

Thanks,

Jim

Jim Norman, Library Assistant
Special Needs Center
Phoenix Public Library
Burton Barr Central Library
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E-Mail: [removed]@phxlib.org

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jesse Price wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I need some help remembering the title of a book I read 4 or 5 years
> ago, and I'm hoping someone will know what the silly thing is called.
> It's an action/adventure Tom Clancy-ish/Robin Cook-ish kind of book
> (but I'm pretty sure not those authors). There's some kind of
> experimentation with very bad diseases (like ebola or hanta virus),
> and someone escapes, either a researcher or a subject (I think) and
> boards an airplane, maybe in Germany. The person gets terribly sick
> on the plane, thereby exposing all the other passengers. The Official
> People in the destination country (U.S.?) find out that this escapee
> has gotten on the airplane, and They refuse to let the plane land.
> The plane gets diverted to Greenland, and ultimately the passengers
> and plane crew stage a desperate getaway (I think at some point They
> talk about blowing the plane up to eliminate the potential for
> epidemic) involving "flying blind" through international airspace and
> ultimately landing somewhere in Africa (again, I think).
>
> Also, I'm not positively sure, but I think the title has military
> overtones.
>
> Please reply directly to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> Jesse Price
> [removed]@indiana.edu
>
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