Micro
Michael Crichton & Richard PrestonThree men are found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu.
There is no sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in
ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts. With no evidence, the police dismiss it as
a bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room,
almost invisible to the human eye.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts,
seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited
by a pioneering microbiology start-up company. Nanigen MicroTechnologies
sends them to a mysterious laboratory in Hawaii, where they are
promised access to tools that will open up a whole new scientific
frontier.
But this opportunity of a lifetime will teach them the true cost of existing at the cutting-edge…
The
group becomes prey to a technology of radical, unimaginable power and
is thrust out into the teeming rainforest. Armed only with their
knowledge of the natural world, the young scientists face a hostile
wilderness that threatens danger at every turn.
To survive, they must harness the awe-inspiring creative – and destructive – forces of nature itself.