[The author] begins his detective story in Lyme, Connecticut, with the accounts of two housewives who in the mid-1970s noticed a baffling array of symptoms afflicting members of their families and others in the community. As physicians studied this strange disease they unearthed similar symptoms that were reported long ago in other countries - such as rashes in Sweden and confusing neurological syndromes in France and Germany in the early 1900s. [His]...