Used book - The Fourth Plague, Patrick Bard

In Uganda, where "sleeping sickness" is rampant, the NGO Doctors Without Borders loses contact with one of its doctors. Sent there, Dr. Abraham Van Tang searches for him in vain. Then a shipment of medicine disappears in a region where the population lives in terror of an army of child soldiers. Van Tang will have to go there and confront terrible violence...

Born in 1958, Patrick Bard is a photographer and novelist. His first novel, La frontière, won the Michel-Lebrun Crime Fiction Prize in 2002, and is available in Points, as is L'Attrapeur d'ombres.

"Patrick Bard demonstrates his ability to recount the horrors of the world in stories perfectly balanced between fiction and reality."

Ouest-France