Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever

A Touch of Fever is the first Warehouse 13 novel, written by Greg Cox and released on June 28, 2011.

Back Cover Description

THE UNKNOWN HAS AN ADDRESS....

Hidden away in the Badlands of South Dakota, Warehouse 13 is a top-secret repository for historical artifacts imbued with dangerous supernatural properties. Secret Service agents Pet Lattimer and Myka Bering are ever on the lookout for loose artifacts threatening to ruin the world's day. Their mission: "Snag it, bag it, tag it."

Reports of a genuine psychic healer, along with a simultaneous epidemic of mysterious illnesses, lead Myka and Pete on a hazardous investigation that stretches from a carnival sideshow back to the bloody history of the Civil War. But when Pete is infected with a deadly disease, Myka and the rest of the team, including Artie Nielsen and Claudia Donovan, must track down a pair of cursed gloves—before a madman unleashes a virulent plague upon America!

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Plot

Chapter 1

The novel begins with Pete patrolling the Museum of Piracy in South Carolina in the middle of the night, looking for Anne Bonny's Cutlass. He is ambushed by one of the tour guides who has been possessed by the sword.

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Chapter 10

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Chapter 12

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Chapter 13

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Chapter 17

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Chapter 19

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Chapter 20

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Chapter 21

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Chapter 22

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Chapter 23

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Chapter 24

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Chapter 25

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Characters

• Pete Lattimer
• Myka Bering
• Artie Nielsen
• Claudia Donovan
• Leena
• Irene Frederic
• Vanessa Calder
• Nadia Malinovich: An original character created for the novel. Masquerading as Princess Nefertiti, a psychic healer at a carnival in West Haven, Connecticut, she is using the power of Clara Barton's gloves to heal people of their injuries. 
• Calvin Worrall: An original character created for the novel. Calvin is the main antagonist. 

Artifacts and Gadgets Featured

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Known Effects

• Clara Barton's Gloves: Absorbing the sickness and the healing power experienced during the Civil War, Clara Barton's gloves have the power to both inflict and alleviate injury and disease. The right glove is capable of removing illness and pain while the left glove is able to impose it, usually in the form of typhoid fever. It is the main artifact of the novel.
• Anne Bonny's Cutlass: Can deliver fifty blows simultaneously with one swipe. The cutlass also possesses the wielder, making them act like savage pirate with a cutthroat thirst for violence.
• Nisqually Totem Pole: A vicious combination of a thunderbird, puma and grizzly bear, the totem pole is able to come alive and attack the nearest populated area with ferocious and bloodthirsty force. They split from each other and two parts of the totem (the bird and the puma) were destroyed during the course of novel.
• Manfred von Richthofen's Triplane: Able to fly itself and equipped with artillery laced with Neutraliser to disable artifacts.
• Wilhelm Reich's Cloudbuster: Installed outside the Warehouse in the Univille Park in the disguise of an art installation, it has the power to summon fierce and sudden storms. The thunderbird portion of the Nisqually Totem Pole collided with it and destroyed the cloudbuster in the resultant explosion.
• Elizabeth Báthory's Bathtub: Transforms any liquid into blood when spilled into the bathtub.
• Shrunken Head: Comes alive by itself and has a taste for blood. Fried beyond recognition when it gnawed on an electrical cable.
• John Chapman's Tin Pot: Fills itself with delicious apple cider.
• Barrel from Niagara Falls: People inside the barrel are able to survive long falls that are fatal under normal circumstances. Comes at the cost of people developing a reckless, daredevil attitude with a compunction to ride the barrel again. Most likely belonged to Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to ride a pickle barrel down Niagara Falls.
• Piece of the Berlin Wall: Forms a miniature replica of the Berlin Wall, complete with barbed wire, searchlights and graffiti, around the last being to make contact with the brick. Activates when the phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" is spoken.
• Apollo 11 Moon Rock: Reduces gravity of anything it comes into contact with to about 1/6 of Earth's, approximately the same as it is on the Moon.
• Queen Victoria's Wedding Cake: Renders anyone less than amused, according to Claudia.
• George Reeves's Glasses: Gives user superhuman vision.

Unknown Effects

• Sigmund Freud's Cigar
• D.B. Cooper's Parachute
• Edna St. Vincent Millay's Candle: Both ends snuffed out. Artie seemed worried when mentioning it, saying "Heaven help us if either end is ever lighted again."
  • At the time the novel was published, the series had not yet made use of the artifact, but it would later be featured in "Savage Seduction", creating a retcon or error.
• Swordfish: Effects unknown, but sent up a shower of sparks when it pierced the floor. Labeled 'The One That Got Away.'
• New England Lighthouse: Partially wrecked after being assaulted by the Nisqually Totem Pole.
• Large Jade Buddha Statue
• Fragments of Crystal Chandelier from the Paris Opera House
• Pagan Obsidian Obelisk
• Bill Clinton's Saxophone
• Chunk of Halley's Comet
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Easel
• Ronald Reagan's Jelly Beans
• Vincent van Gogh's Ear
• The 76 Trombones
• Complete Set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, circa 1966

Referenced Artifacts

Artifacts previously encountered in the series that the novel mentions:

• Rheticus's Compass: Improper usage traps people in a pocket dimension.
• Lenape Tribe's Cloak: Allows wearer to pass through solid matter.
• Implosion Grenade: Creates an implosion when detonated.
• Honjo Masamune: Splits light around the wielder, rendering them invisible.
• Godfrid's Spoon: Consumption of liquid touched by the spoon causes muscle growth. Overconsumption leads to spontaneous combustion.
• Cinderella's Glass Knife: Those stabbed will slowly transform into glass.
• Freezing Snowglobe: Capable of blowing a gust of freezing snowy wind when shaken. Seen being used as a paperweight in Artie's office.
• Aztec Bloodstone: Will possess the mind of one whose blood the stone has "consumed", compelling them to murder.
• Sylvia Plath's Typewriter: Drains one's life force and will to live.

Trivia

• The cover artwork is the same picture used on the cover of the Season 2 DVD.
• ISBN 978-0-7434-9713-0
• Although this book takes place in 2011 (which would presumably place it during Season 3) and references Helena G. Wells, there is no reference to Myka's absence at the end of Season 2, and Steve Jinks neither appears nor is mentioned.
  • The book states that the events of "Breakdown" took place in the previous year. However, as that episode was in Season One, it more likely took place in 2009, rather than 2010.
  • The book mentions that Myka was familiar with the sound of a "saber-tooth tiger newly escaped from the La Brea tar pits". It is unclear if this is meant to reference an original and off-screen event, or an early draft version of the events of "Reset" (where Helena used Primordial Tar from Pitch Lake; in the final episode, the tar instead came from Pitch Lake in Trinidad, and there was no sound of a saber-tooth tiger).
  • Latest episode referenced is the events of "Where and When".
• According to Artie, the Regents had, "long ago", arranged for a "safe house" in New York's Greenwich Village, "tucked away inside the Northern Dispensary" building.
  • The Northern Dispensary was built in 1831 (a year after the founding of Warehouse 12) as a place where the sick could be housed and treated, but was given the stipulation that it could only house those too poor to afford normal hospital care. By 1898 (the year the first iteration of Warehouse 13 was created and subsequently burned down before its reconstruction in 1914), it announced its closure due to financial pressure; in 1990, the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York purchased the building with the intent of turning it into a nursing home for AIDS patients, but were pressured into abandoning the project; in 1998, well-known, eccentric, and reclusive rich investor William Gottleib purchased the building and used it as a warehouse, allowing it to be preserved where it might have otherwise been demolished.
• Although the book depicts a county sheriff in Fairfield, Connecticut, in real life Connecticut abolished the sheriff system in 2000.
• The Thunderbird segment of the Nisqually Totem Pole is written as escaping the Warehouse via a skylight in the ceiling. However, in the series, the Warehouse is never depicted with skylights on the interior ceiling or the exterior roof; all light in the Warehouse is artificial.

External links

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