The Andromeda Strain

The book I read "The Andromeda Strain was written by the author Michael Chrichton. It is approximately 286 pages long. This book should be categorized as a science fiction book.

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The book, The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Chrichton starts out with two men going to investigate a satellite that crashed in Piedmont, Arizona. This satellite was sent out to collect alien organisms or bacteria. When the two men drove into town to collect the satellite they noticed that everyone was dead and within a few moments so were they.

Because they were army personnel working directly for the government, several doctors and scientists were contacted secretly to deal with the issue. Once all the men were contacted, they were set to meet at the "Wildfire Project Installation", which was a top-secret government installation intended to study and correct any alien virus. When the men arrived, they immediately began studying and trying to understand what exactly happened in piedmont and why.

This building was set to five levels, the first of these five was clean however not sterile the second slightly cleaner, as was the third, and fourth, the fifth was as sterile as physically possible. During the experiments they tested two people they brought back from the town, which were the only two survivors of the virus, one being an old man and the other an infant baby. They could find no similarities in them, So they tested the disease on animals and then did autopsies on their dead bodies.

However they did not find anything until during one of the autopsies, Burton, one of the group of scientists, had torn his glove, meaning he was contaminated with the virus. And the automatic detonation button was turned on and set to go off within three minutes. Hall another one of the scientists was the only person able to turn it off, forcing him to crawl through the air shaft to another floor while darts filled with poison were being shot at him. The reason the darts were fired at him was due to the fact that the system was designed to do this in the case of an escaping animal. Hall did get the key and shut off the switch in time however and everyone was safe.

When the strain went over the city of Los Angeles all the scientists were relieved to see that nothing happened at all. This is because the virus had mutated into a harmless strand and this