Outbreak
By: Chris Ryan
Series: A code red adventure; Code red adventure
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780385612890; 9780385612906
Subjects: Mineral industries; Fiction; Environmentally induced diseases; Health aspects
Description: Ben Tracey knows he is going to an unstable area when he accompanies his scientist father to a remote village in the African jungle, where his dad is to carry out some work for a big mining company. But he has no idea that they are about to face a danger they cannot even see: a deadly virus, spawned in an underground lake and released by the opening of the mine. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.