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Two years ago, the New York Times Book Review made the following prediction: “Richtel has the potential to write a blockbuster.”
Now Dead on Arrival proves those words a prophecy. From the beginning Lisa Gardner hails as “the creepiest opening I’ve ever read” to the conclusion James Rollins “never saw coming,” Pulitzer Prize winner Matt Richtel blends science and suspense to deliver a thriller that is already drawing comparisons to the masterworks of Michael Crichton and Stephen King.
FLIGHT 194 LANDED. SOMETHING LETHAL AWAITS OUTSIDE. THIS IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
An airplane touches down at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. Shortly after landing, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: Everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. The world has gone dark. While they were in the air, a lethal new kind of virus surfaced, threatening mankind’s survival, and now Martin—one of the most sought-after virologists on the planet until his career took a precipitous slide—is at the center of the investigation.
Moving at lightning pace from the snowbound Rockies to the secret campus of Google X, where unlimited budgets may be producing wonders beyond our capacity to control, Dead on Arrival is a brilliantly imaginative, intricately plotted thriller that draws on Matt Richtel’s years of science and technology reporting for the New York Times, and establishes him as one of the premier thriller writers working today.
About the author
MATT RICHTEL is a health and science reporter at the New York Times. He spent nearly two years reporting on the teenage mental-health crisis for the paper’s acclaimed multipart series Inner Pandemic, which won first place in public-health reporting from the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and inspired his book How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving, which he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List.
Summary
"MICHAEL CRICHTONmeetsSTEPHEN KINGat their finest." - Lisa Gardner . "Joins the ranks of classic paranoid thrillers about human achievement run amok, withSTEPHEN KING'sThe Standand MICHAEL CRICHTON'sTerminal Man." - Joseph Finder . "A heart-stopping thriller. . A must-read forMICHAEL CRICHTONfans." -Dallas Morning News . "Matt Richtel has taken his place as an heir to MICHAEL CRICHTON." -Connecticut Post
FLIGHT 194 LANDED. SOMETHING LETHAL AWAITS OUTSIDE. THIS IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL, FROM PULITZER-PRIZE WINNER MATT RICHTEL OF THE NEW YORK TIMES.
An airplane touches down at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. Shortly after landing, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: Everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. The world has gone dark. While they were in the air, a lethal new kind of virus surfaced, threatening mankind's survival, and now Martin-one of the most sought-after virologists on the planet until his career took a precipitous slide-is at the center of the investigation.
Moving at lightning pace from the snowbound Rockies to the secret campus of Google X, where unlimited budgets may be producing wonders beyond our capacity to control, Dead on Arrival is a brilliantly imaginative, intricately plotted thriller that draws on Matt Richtel's years of science and technology reporting for the New York Times, and establishes him as one of the premier thriller writers working today.
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“A high concept thriller with the gut-wrenching tension of a doomsday countdown clock.”
