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  • Relentless

  • The Search for Typhoid Mary
  • By: Joan Meijer
  • Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
  • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Relentless

By: Joan Meijer
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
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Summary

In 1906, George Soper of the New York Department of Health, was asked to conduct a private investigation of an unusual typhoid outbreak in Oyster Bay New York. This fascinating look into medical detective work forms the backbone of Relentless: The Search for Typhoid Mary.

At the same time, Mary Mallon - Typhoid Mary, was leading a life she had built starting as a 15-year-old Irish immigrant as a successful cook for New York's wealthy, powerful and important families.

The story is about Mary's fight for her freedom and dignity, and Soper's fight to put her in a place where she could no longer infect the people she worked for. It was the dawn of the age of Microbiology when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch were blazing medical trails in their fight to control the great epidemics of the age. It is a look into the life of one of medicine's great villains who is also a great 'everyman' heroine; a victim of state persecution whose only crime was carrying a disease at a time when germ theory was not widely known. Her story is a study that resonates with issues still in play today. Issues of immigration, feminism, the power of the state, the best interests of the community and more.

©2011 Joan E. Meijer (P)2014 Joan E. Meijer
Biographical Fiction Fiction New York
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Bit odd in places!

Was really enjoying listening to this book with my daughter in the car but was really shocked because some of the story about Mary's sex life was really explicit. My husband was shocked too! I don't know why the author had to add it into the story and it just didn't seem to fit right with the rest of the book.

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