TY - BOOK AU - Gold,Alan TI - Bat out of hell: an eco-thriller SN - 9781631580628 AV - PR9619.4.G65 B38 2015 U1 - 823/.92 23 KW - Women scientists KW - Fiction KW - Virus diseases KW - Epidemics KW - Bats KW - Science fiction N2 - From the jungles of Indonesia to the very heart of New York City comes a plague that kills 100 percent of its victims. Medicine's greatest nightmare, this modern black death is caused by the most virulent and uncontrollable mutant virus humanity has ever witnessed. And medicine can do nothing to stop its merciless spread. Scientist Debra Hart and her team of experts are tasked by the United Nations to stop the disease. Racing against time, they must find the cause and the cure and figure out why this deadly disease-spread by bats-is killing thousands in cities across the globe. Debra and her team will struggle to stop the disease from spreading to millions more, even if it means killing off every bat alive. But fighting to prevent her are manic animal rights' activists who rail against species genocide, even if it means risking the deaths of human beings ER -