Carriers: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067944842X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 355 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said Don't waste your time with this one - IT IS HORRIBLE!. I just finished reading Carriers. I bought it based on the ratings of amazon.com readers but i feel the need to voice my opinion before anyone else wastes $7 on this book. The writing was ridiculous and full of lame cliches like "joey liked monkeys" (that's an actual sentence!). I normally don't notice bad writing which means that this was even worse than bad. the plot itself suffers from way too many characters to the point that you cannot keep track of who's who. the science behind the virus is flawed and the sequence of events seems to hav. Terrifying in its implications mboudrea@highlander.cbnet.ns.ca Patrick Lynch makes a stunning debut with 'Carriers'.Carriers sports a very complicated storyline (you will find it hard to summarize in under five pages) and huge cast of characters (one of the largest I've seen in a thriller) rather well. The plot, at its root, simply involves an epidemic disease spreading across the Indonesian island of Sumetra, as well as outbreaks in both Deleware and London. However, Carriers is really a character-driven story, especially for the first two-thirds or so. Fortunately, Lynch seems to have a knack for makin. "The one that got me hooked." according to A Customer. This is by far one of my favorite books. The characters, as has been already stated in previous reviews, are deep and lifelike. The best part of the story for me personaly was from a completely different source, however.I am extremely hard to scare and even harder to "gross-out", but this book did both. The book is interspersed with EXTREMELY graphic descriptions of possibly the most gruesome deaths I can think of- that is what "grossed me out". Even better, though is the conclusion- it scared me, it truly did and I don't mean a jump up and s
She's come to the jungle to find her two young daughters and in her quest may lie the secret to the terror which threatens to engulf them all. 2 cassettes.. When a plague-like outbreak strikes Indonesia, and a team of American biological warfare experts are brought in to discover its source, they find only corpses--until Holly Becker arrives
Army medical team is sent out to seek the source of the plague at the jungle camp of an American scientist who hasn't answered radio calls for weeks. As more victims succumb, the Indonesian government takes draconian measures and the American team struggles with the jungle and the Indonesians. A U.S. This is no match or substitute for the Preston, however, and Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain remains the outbreak novel to beat. 100,000 first printing; Literary Guild selection; audio rights to Random House Audio. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. High-tech medical detail boosts realism, while the author's penchant for melodrama, including numerous cliffhangers and scenes drenched in blood and other bodily fluids, may distract readers from dwelling on the two-dimensional characters and hard-to-swallow anticlimax. From Publishers Weekly As if Richard Preston's The Hot Zone wasn't scary and exciting enough, here's a fictional account of the