The Trudeau Vector A Novel |
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Author:
| Jurjevics, Juris |
ISBN: | 978-0-670-03437-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Viking Adult |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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As the international team of scientists at the spectacular Trudeau Research Center prepares for six months of unrelenting Arctic winter, three of their colleagues are found dead, their pupils missing and their bodies contorted in ghastly, unnatural positions. An American epidemiologist, the talented and unconventional Dr. Jessica Hanley, is summoned to investigate the medical riddle posed by these grisly deaths. At the same time, a decorated Russian admiral in Moscow is assigned a...
More DescriptionAs the international team of scientists at the spectacular Trudeau Research Center prepares for six months of unrelenting Arctic winter, three of their colleagues are found dead, their pupils missing and their bodies contorted in ghastly, unnatural positions. An American epidemiologist, the talented and unconventional Dr. Jessica Hanley, is summoned to investigate the medical riddle posed by these grisly deaths. At the same time, a decorated Russian admiral in Moscow is assigned a top-secret mission to locate and retrieve a Russian submarine that has suddenly and inexplicably vanished from central commands radar.
The die is cast. Their lives will cross in Jurjevicss engrossing debut thriller, brilliant and terrifying in its medical and historical accuracy. Hanleys inquiry and Admiral Rudenkos quest bring them up against hazards much bigger than microbesscientific megalomania, lingering cold war tensions, world-threatening environmental toxins, all unfolding in the unforgiving extremes of the Arctic.
A thriller that superbly depicts the precarious, volatile area where science and global politics can clash with disastrous results, The Trudeau Vectoris reminiscent of the classic suspense of Frederick Forsyths The Day of the Jackaland the terrifying realism of Michael Crichtons The Andromeda Strain. With its disquieting and revelatory authenticity, readers cannot help but fall under its spell and ask themselves, Could this really happen?