Gravity - Couverture souple

Gerritsen, Tess

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006513085 ISBN 13 : 9780006513087

Editeur : HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen expands the scope of her landscape of terror in a thoroughly menacing new thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of The Surgeon.

Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack McCallum, Emma’s estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. Now he must watch from the sidelines…

The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control – and infects the crew with agonising and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the deadly virus, while back home Jack and NASA work against the clock to bring her home. But there will be no rescue, as the astronauts are left stranded in orbit where they are dying one by one…

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen is also a physician. Her thrillers starring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TV series Rizzoli & Isles. But Tess's interests span far more than medicine and crime. As an anthropology student at Stanford University, she catalogued centuries-old human remains and she continues to travel the world, driven by her fascination with ancient cultures and bizarre natural phenomena. She resides in Maine.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living creatures in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. He must watch from the sidelines...

The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control - and infects the crew with agonising and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the deadly micro-organisms, while back home Jack and NASA work against the clock to bring her home. But with the contagion now threatening Earth, there can be no rescue, leaving Emma and the astronauts quarantined in space, where they are dying one by one.

'Deep, dark and very disturbing.' Tami Hoag

'Tess Gerritsen is an automatic must-read in my house.' Stephen King

'Gerritsen has enough in the locker to seriously worry Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben and even the great Dennis Lehane.' Crime Time

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006513085
• ISBN 13: 9780006513087
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible