There were a few too many plot-advancing coincidences. Darren Harris-Fain and a reproduction of the scarce original jacket art by Peter Curl. This is a fast-moving story about a horrifying disease spreading in the hinterlands of the Soviet Union. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. John Blackburn A Scent of New-Mown Hay Paperback Jby John Blackburn (Author), Darren Harris-Fain (Introduction) 45 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 7.88 Other used and collectible from 5.00 Paperback 16.55 Other new and used from 8. Seller Rating: Contact seller Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD US 8.49 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. Mill Company Seller: Bayside Books, Ogden, U.S.A. This edition, the first in more than thirty years, includes a new introduction by Prof. John Creasey, Books of the Month 'Good, insomniac science-fiction. A Scent of New-mown Hay John Blackburn Published by M. In this, his first and still best-known novel, the prolific John Blackburn (1923-1993) introduced the formula he was to employ so successfully in his career, seamlessly blending mystery, horror, and science fiction to create a thrilling bestseller that readers found impossible to put down. But who is responsible? Is it a Soviet experiment gone horribly wrong, the work of a depraved madman, or something else entirely? And can it be stopped? As the plague spreads to England, Kirk's frantic search leads him from the desolate tundra of Russia to the ruins of a Nazi camp, the site of unthinkable wartime atrocities.

After a British ship's crew and a remote Russian village are wiped out in mysterious and horrible fashion, General Charles Kirk of British Foreign Intelligence sets out to investigate. A Scent of New-Mown Hay typified the approach that would come to characterize Blackburns twenty-eight novels, which defied easy categorization in their unique and compelling mixture of the genres of science fiction, horror, mystery, and thriller. With a plot featuring Cold War intrigue, Nazi mad scientists, and a pandemic that threatens to destroy humanity by mutating people into fungoid monsters, it is not hard to see why A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and an instant science-fiction classic.

Scent Of New Mown Hay by John Blackburn