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In the Indonesian rain forest something deadly is stirring. Older than life, it feeds on the living. A team of Western experts arrives to trace the disease to its source. But at the heart of the trail is a riddle: Holly Becker, a woman in search of her children - a woman who should be dead.
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John Glover won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance in Love! Valour! Compassion!. He has appeared in the films Melvin and Howard, Annie Hall, Scrooged, White Nights, and Julia. He appeared in the television movie An Early Frost.
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of the rain forest, something deadly is stirring Older than life itself, it feeds on the living, silently, mercilessly, with a speed and fatality matched only by the terror these paleovirus' gruesome symptoms provoke. Patrick Lynch's Carriers captures this fear, and presents a world where the war between mankind and nature makes any victory for science temporary at best. When a plague-like outbreak strikes Indonesia, and a team of American biological warfare experts are brought in to discover its source, they find only corpses and riddles without answers -- until Holly Becker arrives. She's come to the jungle to find her two young daughters, likely victims of the terrible plague, and in her quest may lie the secret to the terror which threatens to engulf them all.
Thrilling, engrossing, and as timely as today's headlines, Carriers is that rare novel that rivals the finest nonfiction in its research, accuracy, and credibility. Like Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, Carriers will horrify, bu
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- PublisherMandarin
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0749314001
- ISBN 13 9780749314002
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 478 pages. Ex-library. Cover worn.In the depths of the Indonesian rainforest something deadly is stirring. Older than life, it feeds on the living. This is the latest thriller from the author of The Annunciation and The Immaculate Conception. Seller Inventory # 2231aj
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