| Jack used to be a very successful computer programmer until he discovered a secret about the company that could make them the next Enron. After threatening to go public, Jack was fired and became a stay-at-home father, taking care of his three children. As he starts settling down, Jack notices his wife starts acting very peculiar and comes to the conclussion that she is having an affair.
His wife, unbeknown of her husbands speculations, shows him a tape of what she has been working on at a lab out in the Nevada desert. This project is a revolutionary new camera that can actually go inside of a human's blood stream because it is made up of millions of nano particles. After Jack's wife is brutally injured in an auto accident, Jack goes to the lab where his wife worked as a consultant. What he finds is that these particles, that travel in swarms, have not only gotton loose in the desert, but they are also reproducing and hunting. After Jack and some employees of the lab are successful in destroying the nest of the wild particle swarms, they learn that the particles can infect a human and not only eat away at them but impair their ability to control their own actions. The particles have not only infected the project leaders, they have infected everyone at the lab except for Jack and another woman named Mae. The only solution they can find to destroying these parasites is to spray everyone with a phage that is used to control the particles. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes Stealing/recovering/destroying Lifeform altered? Yes Kind of alteration: Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Family relations Yes Descript. of chases or violence - 10 % planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 % Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 40 % Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Main Adversary Identity: - An "It". How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount How sensitive is this character? Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Setting Terrain Earth setting: - current (early 21st century) Takes place on Earth? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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