xviii, 321 pages, [24] pages of plates : 24 cm

"In April of 1979 the city of Sverdlovsk in Russia's Ural Mountains was struck by a frightening anthrax epidemic. Official documents reported 64 human deaths resulting from the ingestion of tainted meat sold on the black market"--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index

Anthrax; accursed fire and biological weapon -- Moscow; fragments of evidence -- Moscow; conflicting visions -- In the Urals; the quest begins -- Autopsy visions -- The community of the dead; Vostochniy Cemetery -- Abramova's treasure -- To Chkalovskiy Rayon -- Constraints, fears, frustrations -- Knocking on doors -- Public health and private pain -- The unnatural steals the natural

Resignation -- Vulnerability and chance -- The KGB list of victims -- Moscow redux -- Names go to places; map building begins -- Biological weapons and political outbreaks -- Manifestation -- Mirage; the animal outbreak -- Chkalovskiy; the final pieces -- Do no evil, see no evil -- The summing up -- The threat of bioweapons -- Return to Yekaterinburg -- "The world is global."

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