**A thrilling debut in the style of Crichton or A.G. Riddle, Resistant imagines a chilling --and entirely plausible--future where antibiotics don't work, and weaves adventure, romance, and science into a thrilling chase for a cure. ** In the final battle with drug-resistant bacteria, one woman's blo
Resistant
β Scribed by Michael Palmer
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1250030900
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
They fight without conscience or remorse. Their only job is to kill.
They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced.
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And they are one millionth our size.******
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**When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. But an accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating Cap alive from the inside out. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, a teenaged girl is fighting for her life against the same bacteria. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. Turning to the Centers for Disease Control for help, Lou Welcome uncovers a link to a shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors that has...
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