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The techno-thriller genre's newest star, whom People magazine likened to Michael Chrichton himself, unleashes in Reaper the best techno-killer -- a biological virus that's spread electronically.In Boston, nine legal professionals ona conference call suddenly convulse with pain, turn chalk white and die. In Vermont, a young woman watching her favorite sitcom meets the same grisly fate, as does several sewer workers in Washington, D.C. Whatever has killed these people is spreading fast and the task of eradicating it falls to young virologist Samantha Craig and paramedic Nick Barnes, whose brilliant surgical career was ruined by the crippling hand injury.When Nick and Samantha find that the virus, named Reaper, is spread through TVs and PCs, they recognize that the info superhighway can be a killing field, with tens of millions dead, unless they can root Reaper out. Their search employs a dazzling array of real-life wizardry, from Mylar body paint to Stealth helicopters to CIA-bred swarms of insects. At the core of Reaper's madness, they find a suavely megalomaniacal, up-from-the-slums, high-tech billionaire; and a high-powered cabal that will do anything to save lots of the world from technology, even if that means annihilating the world.Drawing on the latest medical and technological research and folding in deftly realized characters, Ben Mezrich crafts a relentless, page-turning tale that reaches once cutting-edge and utterly believable.
