The Andromeda Strain

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"Relentlessly suspenseful...A hair-raising experience." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS The United States government stands warned that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. When a probe satellite falls to the earth two years later and lands in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona the bodies that lie heaped and flung across the ground have faces locked in frozen surprise. The terror has begun....