"In an ice cave in the Swiss Alps, Mitch Rafelson, a renegade paleontologist, discovers a frozen Neanderthal family, including an oddly evolved infant. Meantime, in Soviet Georgia, Kaye Lang, a microbiologist, is investigating a massacre site, where pregnant women were exterminated. These events relate--by way of elliptical scientific reasoning--to a retrovirus being hunted by U.S. government scientist Christopher Dicken. Called SHEVA, it causes genetic mutations in embryos and may also be an agent of evolution, ushering into being a new race of humans. Is it a sexually transmitted disease? Or, more sinister, is it a God-sent means of delivering up a new Adam for the millennium?" - P.W.
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Showing 4 featured editions. View all 17 editions?
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
|
zzzz
|
2
Darwin's radio
2000, Ballantine Pub. Group
in English
- 1st mass market ed.
0345435249 9780345435248
|
zzzz
|
3
|
aaaa
|
4
|
zzzz
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
"A Del Rey book"--T.p. verso.
Classifications
The Physical Object
Edition Identifiers
Work Identifiers
Source records
First Sentence
"The flat afternoon sky spread over the black and gray mountains like a stage backdrop, the color of a dog's pale crazy eye."
Work Description
"Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage. But when Dicken finds what he's looking for, the answer proves to be stranger--and far deadlier--than he ever could have imagined. Something that has slept in human DNA for millions of years is waking up.Molecular biologist Kaye Lang has spent her career tracing ancient retroviruses in the human genome. She believes these microscopic fossils can come to life again. But when Dicken's discovery becomes public, Lang's theory suddenly turns to chilling fact. 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.
Community Reviews (0)
Lists
