Author: Greg Bear
Year: 1999
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Science fiction, Award winners, Fantasy, Thriller, Hard science fiction
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9780345459817
9780345435248
0345459814 |
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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.
This book is part of the "Darwin's Radio" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Darwin's Children"
First published in 2003
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