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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed.… (mais)
En un remoto lugar del desierto de Nuevo México, un enigmático centro de investigación lleva a cabo un ambicioso proyecto científico: un tratamiento definitivo para una enfermedad común pero molesta, y grave en algunos casos. El espectacular hallazgo representará sin duda sustanciosos beneficios para la empresa, y el Premio Nobel para el equipo de investigadores de Monte Dragón, como se llama el laboratorio.
Mount Dragon is close to my favorite Preston Child work. A suspenseful, twisted plot highlighting the eternal conflict between scientific research for the growth and good of humankind and the greed and desire for profit and power. Great story with a bang up ending. ( )
Gripping hi-tech novel using cutting edge elements from both cyberspace and genetic engineering. Only flaw is the main characters of Carson and de Vaca and their conflict. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Our symbols shout at the universe,
They fly off, like hunters' arrows
Into the night sky.
Or knapped spearpoints into flesh.
They race like fires across plains,
Driving buffalo.
—Franklin Burt
One window upon Apocalypse is more than enough.
—Susan Wright/Robert L. Sinsheimer,
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To Jerome Preston, Senior —D. P.
To Luchie; my parents; and Nina Soller —L. C.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The sounds drifted over the long green lawn, so faint they could have been the crying of ravens in the nearby wood, or the distant braying of a mule on the farm across the brown river.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"It's been a long time since I've had a good bowl of mutton stew," he said.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Be careful when combining a book titled Virus with the author's last name of Preston. Both Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child AND Richard Preston have a book with this title.
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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed.
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