Darwin's Radio
Book 1 of Darwin
Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Published: Jan 2, 1999
Awards:
Nebula.Best Novel.Winner.2001
List Of Awards:
Nebula
Date Read:
May 18, 2014
Form:
Novel
Pages:
428
Read Status:
read
Shelves:
read
Word Count:
156791
Book Details
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Description:
Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps --the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up.
Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve--an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.