Andromeda Strain The

A space probe designed to collect organisms and dust for study falls to earth in a desolate area of north-eastern Arizona. In a nearby town bodies lie flung about faces frozen in surprise. The terror has begun. This bestseller is by the author of Jurassic Park.|Born in Chicago in 1942 Michael Crichton first trained as a doctor before going on to become one of the most successful writers in the world. In 1994 he achieved a feat unmatched by any other writer: by having simultaneously a number one TV series book and movie with respectively ER (which he created) Disclosure and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park on its release the highest-grossing film of all time. He also directed several movies including The Great Railway Robbery with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. His high-concept thrillers were international bestsellers and in total his books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. He died in 2008.|NOW CELEBRATING ITS 50th ANNIVERSARYRead the spectacular techno-thriller that catapulted Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton to fame.Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation 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. But the terror has only just begun because when they try to find the cause of death the scientists don't realise just what kind of unearthly danger they are dealing with...Brilliantly filmed by Robert Wise in 1971 The Andromeda Strain was the first book to introduce Michael Crichton's audacious combination of believable plots and white-knuckled excitement to a wide audience.|He had me convinced it was all really happening|Science fiction which once frightened me because it seemed so far-out now frightens me because it seems so near. The Andromeda Strain is as matter-of-fact as the skull-and-crossbones instructions on a bottle of poison - and just as chillingly effective|Terrifying...One of the most important novels of the year