From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life.
Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northeastern Arizona. Nearby, in the town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. What could cause such shock and fear? The terror has begun, and there is no telling where it will end.
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Summary
Overall The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 331 pages published in 1969. This is the book (I first saw it a long time ago in the classic 1971 movie, later remade in
2008) that hooked me on Michael Crichton as an interesting writer. The story discusses what a team of scientists go through to investigate a deadly extraterrestrial micro
organism that decimates a whole town. The micro organism is named “Andromeda” by the scientists and they are challenged as they have never been as it continues to mutate.
The clock is ticking as they must find a cure before the virus escapes containment in the super secret underground facility or face death either from the microbe or from the need to trigger a self destruct command to ensure the safety of the rest of mankind. Suggest you read it, then watch both movies.