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--until Holly Becker arrives. She's come to the jungle to find her two young daughters and in her quest may lie the secret to the terror which threatens to engulf them all. 2 cassettes.
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From Publishers Weekly
As if Richard Preston's The Hot Zone wasn't scary and exciting enough, here's a fictional account of the eruption of an ebola-like virus in a tropical setting-in this case, Sumatra. A U.S. Army medical team is sent out to seek the source of the plague at the jungle camp of an American scientist who hasn't answered radio calls for weeks. As more victims succumb, the Indonesian government takes draconian measures and the American team struggles with the jungle and the Indonesians. Meanwhile, the ex-wife of the missing scientist shows up, searching for her twin 12-year-old daughters. Lynch maintains a brisk pace as he focuses on the spread of the disease and on the search for its source and vector. High-tech medical detail boosts realism, while the author's penchant for melodrama, including numerous cliffhangers and scenes drenched in blood and other bodily fluids, may distract readers from dwelling on the two-dimensional characters and hard-to-swallow anticlimax. This is no match or substitute for the Preston, however, and Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain remains the outbreak novel to beat. 100,000 first printing; Literary Guild selection; audio rights to Random House Audio.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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As if real-world deadly viruses aren't scary enough, we're confronted with scientific thrillers about out-of-control viral strains. This latest in the genre involves eager botanist Jonathan Rhodes, who comes across a paleo-virus in the jungles of Southeast Asia. To make matters worse, Rhodes' young twin daughters are missing, and their camp has been ravaged. Holly Rhodes, the girls' mother and the doctor's ex-wife, is on her way to visit when she gets word that her children are missing. She forgets the safe life and loving boyfriend she left in her Manhattan high-rise as she begins a frantic search for her children. The island gradually succumbs to complete turmoil as various allied governments try haphazardly to control the epidemic. But at the very core of the outbreak is a frightening secret that Holly has the misfortune to learn. Readers who have the stomach for gore and bloodshed will find Carriers a fast-paced, exciting read. Mary Frances Wilkens
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
compelling and addictive,
By A Customer
This review is from: Carriers (Paperback)
Before even reading Richard Preston's THE HOT ZONE, I just had to get a hold of Patrick Lynch's CARRIERS. This scientific thriller, weaving love, fear, worries and hatred into the plot, kept me in constant suspense which made it an exciting fast-paced read. With an airborne epidemic "one hundred more times more contagious than Ebola" (USA Today), breaking out in the Indonesian rain forests, only a team of American Microbiological experts are sent to investigate its source and try to keep it under control haphazardly, but only corpses and infected natives, who die in a matter of hours, are discovered with no answers to how the core of this mysterious plague is being spread. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone in search of a horrifying heart-racing, yet compelling read.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Chilling,
By A Customer
This review is from: Carriers (Paperback)
I heard this book was great. I had high expectations and (to my surprise) they were thoroughly met. This is the scariest thriller of a bio/medical kind I've ever read, and I'd only hesitate to recommend it to people with weak hearts. I was gripped completely.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best BioSci Mystery read to date. A top-notch thriller!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Carriers (Price-Less Audio) (Audio Cassette)
Patrick Lynch's "Carriers" seduces unrelentingly with its
incredible chapter by chapter cliffhanging style.
It kept me up all night, literally unable to sleep until
I finished it. I highly recommend this book to anyone
interested in the precarious relationship we have with our
primitive ecosystems or who is fascinated with that
voracious, unseen, world conquering monster that is the
virus. This is a truly frightening book, that brings home
the personal nature of a pandemic event with just a hint as
to its secret carefully dangled in the context of a brief
encounter. Everyone I've shown this book to, after reading
only a few pages has gone out and bought the paperback for
themselves. I eagerly await Lynch's next foray into the
cardiac wild.
Doug Kennedy
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