The Romanov cross
Subtitle: a novel
By: Robert Masello
Publisher: Bantam Books; Bantam
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780553807806; 9780345533593
Subjects: Collection and preservation; Antiquities; Fiction
Description: Army epidemiologist Frank Slater's offered a job no one else wants: to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon. The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918 and was once devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin. Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so, ensure that it doesn't come back to life.