- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Eos; Abridged edition (Sep 11 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0694517623
- ISBN-13: 978-0694517626
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.5 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 150 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
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'Leaving the horror to the imagination rather than the TV studio's special effects department has its benefits...' Herald 29/1/98
Book Description
When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally-funded DyMar genetic research laboratory, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agents investigating the"X-Files"--cases the Bureau has deemed unsolvable--Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI . . . and beyond.
Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery. Before his death, Dr. David Kennessy, a hotshot cancer researcher at DyMar, had been experimenting with a promising but highly dangerous technology: microscopic bio-machines that can cure any disease, heal any wound. In theory this research could be a miracle cure, perhaps even a doorway to immortality. It was also the only way Dr. Kennesssy could save his leukemia-stricken son.
But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it's anything but theoretical. Could machines created to cure have learned to kill? Scrambling for answers, Mulder and Scully are opposed at every turn by faceless enemies with all the resources of the government--and perhaps of their own agency--at their command. Enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of immortality falls into the right hands--their hands.
As sinister forces close in, Scully fights to save the life of an innocent boy, while Mulder comes face to face with a crazed and desperate man. A man whose slightest touch brings agonizing death--and perhaps a resurrection more horrible still.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Maybe right before "Gethsemane"?,
By Chris (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The X-Files: Antibodies (Mass Market Paperback)
I remember buying this book back in the nineties and when I saw it again at my library, I wondered if I had finished it. I checked it out and discovered I'd only made it halfway through. This was probably because the first half of the book, with not a lot of Mulder and Scully, was lukewarm. And as I read, I was thinking that Anderson (Kevin, not Gillian) was going to pass on pursuing one of the earlier tentacles of the story, but at the climax of the book, he wrapped me up in it (I started the day reading in sunlight and finished in candlelight) and the book was redeemed. With the exception of the movie tie-ins, I think this was the last X-Files novel and that's too bad.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Boy, I miss Mulder *sniff*,
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This review is from: X-files: Antibodies, The (Audio Cassette)
I can't even remember where I acquired this ABRIDGED auidobook but I just re-discovered it hidden way down in the bowels of the storage compartment in my vehicle while I was searching for a missing glove (which is, alas, still missing). It rates about a four for me for keeping me entertained while on my long drive to work. My drifty mind wandered only a few times.The story reminds me very much of something Dean Koontz could've cooked up (I love the way the Koontz writes even when he gets over-the-top silly and meanders off into pages and pages of mind numbing description). This book is fast paced (this author apparently doesn't share Koontz's proclivity for longwindyness) and tells a story of a boy and his dog infected with a cancer, gun-shot wound, burnt to a crisp curing, form of nano-technology. Don't ask. My pea brain can't comprehend it. Anyway, one of the scientists who worked on this technology is also infected with these nano-critters. But he went and infected himself with the bad kind (duh!) and instead of fixing whatever ails him they make him break out with big tumorous lesions and whomever he touches dies of plague-like symptoms. Why? Ya got me. Plague-man is desperately searching for the boy and his dog because he believes their blood will cure him (boy, dog and their mom are hiding). Along the way he touches a few people and grossness occurs. Scully, Mulder and The Smoking Man make a few appearances but this story doesn't bring them to life in any exceptional way and it lacked Mulder's morbid sense of humor (the book would've rated much higher if these characters came alive a bit more). Overall it was interesting, a little icky and very sad at times reminding me of a classic X-Files episode without the Mulderisms.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better than an eposide!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The X-Files: Antibodies (Mass Market Paperback)
This book came over just like watching a great eposide. It has Scully and Mulder at their best.
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