Dead On Arrival
A Novel
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2017
368 pages
978-0-06-244329-8 (ISBN)
Description
MICHAEL CRICHTONmeetsSTEPHEN KINGat their finest with the creepiest opening Ive ever read. Lisa Gardner * Joins the ranks of classic paranoid thrillers about human achievement run amok, withSTEPHEN KINGsThe Standand Michael CrichtonsTerminal Man. Joseph Finder *A heart-stopping thriller. amust-read forMICHAEL CRICHTONfans. Dallas Morning News* Similar in atmosphere and style toMICHAEL CRICHTONandSTEPHEN KING. ... A race-against-the-clock thriller. BooklistFLIGHT 194 LANDED.SOMETHING LETHAL AWAITS OUTSIDE.THIS IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL.An airplane touches down at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. Shortly after landing, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: Everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. The world has gone dark. While they were in the air, a lethal new kind of virus surfaced, threatening mankind's survival, and now Martinone of the most sought-after virologists on the planet until his career took a precipitous slideis at the center of the investigation.Moving at lightning pace from the snowbound Rockies to the secret campus of Google X, where unlimited budgets may be producing wonders beyond our capacity to control, Dead on Arrival is a brilliantly imaginative, intricately plotted thriller that draws on Matt Richtel's years of science and technology reporting for the New York Times, and establishes him as one of the premier thriller writers working today.
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Matt Richtel is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List. Richtel has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco, California.
