The Andromeda Strain
By: Michael Crichton
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books edition (56)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1993-01
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780345378484
Copyright date: 1969
Subjects: Biological weapons; Fiction
Description: Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilzation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study'.

Then a probe falls to the earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona. A little while later, in the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies are discovered heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. The terror has begun...
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