Three men are found dead in the locked second-floor office
of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for
the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The
only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly
invisible to the human eye.
In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has
ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting.
Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria
species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for
priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything
previously imagined.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the
forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering
microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches
the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are
promised access to tools that will open a whole new
scientific frontier.
But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust
into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and
surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their
knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to
a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive,
they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.
An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in
vintage Crichton fashion.
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