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The Secret of Life

✍ Scribed by McAuley, Paul J

Publisher: Macmillan; Tor
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 266 KB
Edition: 1st mass market ed
Category: Fiction
City: New York, Mars (Planet), Pacific Ocean, Mars (Planet), Pacific Ocean.
ISBN-13: 9780765341938

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✦ Synopsis

2026: Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean, a strange fungus-like organism that may threaten our entire food chain. Christened "the slick," the bizarre phenomenon is quickly the subject of intense, top-secret analysis-which rapidly reveals that it contains DNA unlike that of any other life on the planet.Where is it from? A Chinese mission to Mars is rumored to have discovered life beneath the Martian icecap, but the Chinese aren't talking. Dr. Mariella Anders is recruited by NASA to join an urgent mission to the Red Planet to find out. Brilliant and committed to science, Mariella wants only the truth, but others' motives are less noble. Faced with corporations, activist groups, and superpowers, each with their own secret agendas, Mariella is on a perilous quest for knowledge. . .and she's about the discover the high price of truth.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.