{"product_id":"kalahari-9781595147660","title":"Kalahari","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Survivor meets James Bond in this page-turning mix of realism and science fiction.\" Voice of Youth Advocates  Deep in the Kalahari Desert  a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own?  When an educational safari goes wrong  five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. Its up to Sarah  the daughter of zoologists  to keep them alive and lead them to safety  calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration  starvation and the pangs of first love  she does her best to hold it together  even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate.  But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything shes ever known about the natural world. A silver lion  as though made of mercury  makes a vicious  unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape  they uncover the chilling truth behind the lions silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire areaand eliminate life as they know it.  In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro  Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus  but its creators  who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650506416181,"sku":"ByrdShop_1595147667","price":64.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781595147660.jpg?v=1781798184","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/kalahari-9781595147660","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}