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Pub Date: 2012-09-25 Pages: 560 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US # 1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignoreIn the locked office of a Honolulu building. three men are found dead. with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine. razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies.In the lush rain forests of Oahu. groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Here. seven brilliant graduate students recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power-armed only with their knowledge of the natural world-they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself to survive.Melding scientific fact with pulse-pounding fict...