Darwin's Radio
Book 1 of Darwin's Radio
Language: English
DNA viruses Fiction Fiction - Science Fiction General General & Literary Fiction Human Evolution Medical Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Science Fiction - General Science fiction Suspense Technological Thrillers Virus diseases Women molecular biologists
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jul 5, 2000
Description:
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE
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. **