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Mount Dragon [Audiobook] [Unabridged] (Audio Cassette)

by Douglas Preston (Author), Lincoln Child (Author), David Colacci (Reader)

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Audio Cassette
Publisher: Unabridged Library Edition; Library edition (Mar 1 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1561003115
ISBN-13: 978-1561003112
Product Dimensions: 22,9 x 14 x 5,7 cm
Shipping Weight: 567 g

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From Publishers Weekly

The writing team that scared the willies out of readers with Relic returns with a second, equally gripping novel of techno-terror. A genetically engineered mutation of DNA holds the promise of eradicating influenza forever. But there's a devastating catch: every living creature who comes in contact with the flu-killing virus dies horribly. In the eponymous research facility located deep in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico, young geneticist Guy Carson and his colleagues try to solve the problem, working in an atmosphere of increasing paranoia while the future of their employer, GeneDyne, rests on the actions of brilliant scientists driven by opposing motives. The authors weave together so many topical threads here (virtual reality, lost Spanish treasure, ethnic pride, scientific ethics) that only their tight control prevents this rousing scientific adventure from spinning away into hyperspace. It's a grand and scary story, with just enough grisly detail to stimulate real-life fears and characters full enough to engage the attention. The bleak desert provides another fearsome challenge to the novel's characters, as well as a metaphor for humanity's previous attempts to control nature. With science, outdoor adventure, sympathetic players and a catchy dusting of computer lore, there's something here to attract-and satisfy-a diverse range of readers. Author tour. (Feb.) ~ FYI: A teaser chapter from Mount Dragon will be included in the mass market edition of Relic, due out this month.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Preston and Child, who pooled their talents in last year's Relic (LJ 1/95), here provide a suspenseful romp combining genetic engineering, virtual reality, and scientific ethics. When Guy Carson is asked to join the elite group of scientists working at GeneDyne's mysterious Mount Dragon facility, he's overjoyed. There, he works on a grand scheme to alter humanity's DNA code in order to provide immunity to the flu. As expected in tales of this ilk, playing God has its risks, and things go horribly awry. Reader David Colacci employs a wonderful sense of pace in this exciting if sometimes preachy novel, which will do well in most popular collections.?Mark Annichiarico, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 another winning thriller from the Preston-Child engine, Mai 21 2004

Par	Terrence H. Seamon (New Brunswick, New Jersey USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Mount Dragon (Hardcover)

Just finished Mount Dragon (now into Thunderhead) and could not put it down.

These guys are good, I mean really good. They know how to create fully realized characters, in a believable setting, and then let all hell break loose.

Ever since I read Relic, I have been devouring their other stuff.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Really good read, Avril 15 2004

Par	M. R Turner "zenresistance" (Edgemoor, SC United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Mount Dragon: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

It's not there best work, but even so, it's better than probably 95% of what's out in the genre and in general. Preston and Child do a great job with plot and character. I thought the "bad guy" was great, and I thought the climax was very, very good.

These guys write damn good novels.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Somebody's been playing in the gene pool again!, Sep 5 2003

Par	K. L Sadler (Freedom, Pa. USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Mount Dragon: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

Oh boy, I just love it when the scientists play around with things
they do not know enough about. Someone always gets hurt when
this happens, not always the supposed 'bad guys'. In this case,
a genome outfit is playing with a 'super flu' (sounds like SARS),
and most of the people working on it think it is for a good cause.
Of course, the boss is willing to sell it to the military and to the
highest bidder. He lost his moral code a long time ago, and he's out
to make as much money of off his work as he can. Actually, he isn't
the person working on this, so he doesn't realize there seem to
be a few problems with even working with this flu type.

Isn't it obvious that anyone working in the boondocks, i.e. Nevada,
is usually up to no good. It's bad enough that anyone living downwind
of the atomic testing in Nevada during the 50s and 60s, have either gotten
cancer or hypothyroidism. You would think by now, that anything
being done so secretly would ring a bell, wave a red flag, draw some
type of regulation, right? Those of us who work in bioethics know better...
Internal Review Boards are just that, people internally (of the
business are regulating themselves). Doesn't happen very well...

In this novel which is more along the line of a Tom Clancy novel, one of the
newer scientists starts to notice irrational behavior on the part of other
scientists who were more or less forced into using the vaccine on themselves.
They get very paranoid for one thing, and scientists are paranoid
anyway, that someone is out to steal 'their' idea. It's apparent that this idea
of scientists working on morally-wrong projects is not new...I am seeing
it more and more in the books I read for enjoyment. Unfortunately, all
too often the public is willing to remain ignorant and allow the few to
control the technological businesses, such as gene cloning, etc. What
you don't know CAN all to often kill you.

A pretty good story and plot line...

Karen Sadler

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