And local doctors are mystified when an injured park worker arrives at the hospital with gashes on his body, as if he’s been mauled by an animal of monstrous proportions. Even the expert consultants on the project don’t know exactly what it is. Newspaper stories from NASA that have appeared since the completion of the manuscript read like details from The Andromeda Strain…Ģ cassettes / 3 hoursRead by John HeardFrom the ever inventive, ingenious mind of Michael Crichton comes the terrifying tale of a ‘theme’ park that even Disney never dreamed of!A shroud of secrecy covers a privately owned island off the coast of the Dominican Republic where an American bioengineering firm is quietly building a resort theme park.
With its narrative force, its scientific detail, its suspense as four brilliant individualists work together under ultimate pressure this novel makes real for the reader the real world of today’s science and medicine at the top secret levels of the Science Space Military high command. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of The Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial ‘adversary’ ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split second race against an atomic deadline. There surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants an elderly derelict and an infant of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire’s secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of ‘Project Wildfire’ the crash mobilization of the nation’s highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. ’Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world’s first space age biological emergency. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity… As in most crises, the events surrounding The Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. ‘This book recounts the five day history of a major American scientific crisis.
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