Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a
household name--and spawned a new genre, the technothriller--the threat
returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and
resonant.
The Evolution is Coming.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and
nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the
particle--designated *The Andromeda Strain--*killed every resident of
the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant
boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to
Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of
unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear
detonation, they succeeded.
In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. And the
world thought it was safe...
Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has
continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the
verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity--until
now. A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of
otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the
tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle.
With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is
activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world
is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat.
But the microbe is growing--evolving. And if the Wildfire team can't
reach the quarantine zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop
it, this new Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it.
