The Year Of The Flood Annette Lavers By making the audacious claim

By making the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection - and could be treated with antiseptics - he changed the history of medicine forever

Joe's search for the answers takes him from the corridors of power to the swamps of the southern states

He explores Paine's political and social ideas and the way he popularized them by pioneering

before the murderer decides to strike again

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The Year Of The Flood Annette Lavers By making the audacious claimThe sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood a manmade plague has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden.