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Andromeda

by Michael Crichton, Geoffrey Household

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Language
Italian
Published
2018
Publisher
Garzanti Libri
Pages
337
ISBN
9788811602477
When a military satellite crashes in a remote Arizona town, the recovery team makes a horrifying discovery: the entire population is dead, their bodies frozen in the last moments of life. The only exceptions are two inexplicable survivors - an old man and a newborn baby. The incident triggers Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency protocol that summons four of the nation's most elite scientists to a hidden, five-story underground laboratory. Their mission is to isolate and understand the lethal agent brought back from space before it can escape.

Working in complete isolation against a ticking clock, the team studies the extraterrestrial microorganism, codenamed "Andromeda." They soon learn it is a life form unlike any ever seen, one that mutates with terrifying speed and purpose. As the scientists race to find a weakness, they are confronted by equipment failure, human error, and the unnerving reality that their containment facility is designed with a final, drastic fail-safe: a nuclear device. This meticulously detailed account documents the 72-hour crisis that threatened to extinguish all life on Earth, exploring whether human ingenuity is enough to save us from the unknown.

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