by Philip Jett

It was 1918 and there was a killer on the loose. Worse than any serial predator in modern history, its deadly grasp was swift, its hold resolute, and its thirst for killing unquenchable. No one was safe. It tracked down its victims in their homes and businesses, on city streets and farms. It cared nothing of royalty, wealth, age, race, gender, or national origin. The industrial revolution only encouraged it and modern advances in medicine could do little to slow it. The invisible monster’s name was the Spanish influenza.