The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of "Project Wildfire"-the crash mobilization of the nation's highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated.įour American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert.
Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world's first space-age biological emergency. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis.
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