num_pages: 334
description: Deep in the jungle of Peru where so much remains unknown a black skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur India earthquake lab confounding the scientists there. During the same week the Chinese government accidentally drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington D.C. laboratory. Something wants out. The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species long dormant is now very much awake.
language: English
title: The Hatching
publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books