โ Scribed by Paul McEuen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this riveting debut thrillera finalist for Best First Novel at the 2012 Thriller Awards and a nominee for a Nero Awardthe race is on to stop the devastating proliferation of the ultimate bioweapon. Spiral is perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Richard Preston.
When Nobel laureate Liam Connor is found dead at the bottom of one of Ithaca, New Yorks famous gorges, his research collaborator, Cornell professor of nanoscience Jake Sterling, refuses to believe it was suicide. Why would one of the worlds most eminent biologists, a eighty-six-year old man in good health who survived some of the darkest days of the Second World War, have chosen to throw himself off a bridge? And who was the mysterious woman caught on camera at the scene? Soon it becomes clear that a cache of supersophisticated nanorobotseach the size of a spiderhas disappeared from the dead mans laboratory.
Stunned by grief, Jake, Liams granddaughter, Maggie, and Maggies nine-year-old son, Dylan, try to put the pieces together. They uncover ingeniously coded messages Liam left behind pointing toward a devastating secret he gleaned off the shores of war-ravaged Japan and carried for more than sixty years.
What begins as a quest for answers soon leads to a horrifying series of revelations at the crossroads of biological warfare and nanoscience. At this dangerous intersection, a skilled and sadistic assassin, an infamous Japanese war criminal, and a ruthless U.S. government official are all players in a harrowing game of power, treachery, and intriguea game whose winner will hold the worlds fate literally in the palm of his hand.
From the Hardcover edition.
Winner of the 2012 Thriller Award for Best First Novel
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780679604358
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