The Andromeda Strain

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 14, 2012 - Fiction - 304 pages

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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Contents

Epigraph Acknowledgments
Contact
The Country of Lost Borders
Vandenberg
Crisis
Alert
Piedmont
The Early Hours
The Noon Conference
Crash
Routine
The Midnight Conference
Spread
The Analysis
Topeka
Evaluation

Piedmont
An Unusual Process
Directive 712
Flatrock
Stage I
Decontamination
Wildfire
The Conference
Level V
Miscellaneous
Main Control
Autopsy
Recovery
Willis
The Seal
Scared to Death
The Test
Three Minutes
Resolution
The Last
Epilogue
References
About the Author
Books by Michael Crichton
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

MICHAEL CRICHTON’s novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, and The Lost World. He was as well the creator of the television series ER. Crichton died in 2008.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Andromeda Strain
AuthorMichael Crichton
Editionunabridged
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012
ISBN0307816419, 9780307816412
Length304 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
Fiction / Thrillers / General
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
  
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