NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name--and spawned a new genre, the technothriller--the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.
And if the Wildfire team can\'t reach the quarantine zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop it, this new Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it..
But the microbe is growing--evolving.
With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat.
A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle.
On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity--until now.
Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear.
And the world thought it was safe...
In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued.
In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded.
Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions.
Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain-- killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race.
The Evolution is Coming.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name--and spawned a new genre, the technothriller--the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant
