Chosen to conduct a three-month series of NASA experiments with single-cell organisms called Archaeons, Dr. Emma McCallum soon discovers the terrifying nature of these organisms and must try to stop a deadly disease that could threaten the entire world. Reissue.
On a massive space station, the Earth's first full-scale orbital research station, a team of scientists are examining a variety of microbes, including one dubbed Chimera that has been disguised and smuggled aboard. When it gets loose on the station, the scientists are confronted battling an enemy that has the ability to replicate any DNA strand that it comes into contact with.
- Genre: Science Fiction + Fantasy, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Medicine + Health, Women, Hard Science, Types of Characters, Work + the Workplace, Settings, Action + Thrillers
- Publisher: Pocket Books
- Pages: 385
- Edition: Reissue
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: October 1, 2000
- Date Published: October 1, 2000
- Author: Tess Gerritsen