The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

They go through the town, noting that the blood had clotted solid in the arteries and veins of the victims, that death is mostly instantaneous, and that some victims live long enough to kill themselves in bizarre ways.Ī child is found with his mouth full of modeling glue, while an older man is found in full battle dress with a gaping, bloodless hole through his head. After the team has been assembled, two of the members are inserted into the town to find the satellite and any info on the way this mysterious disease is killing people. Now, the head of this group of biologists and the team of doctors and other biologists are called into action to turn this base into a disease control center. The base also would have an automatic nuclear device placed at the bottom of it to prevent the spread of the organism if it were to break the seals of any of the levels, and several stations to abort the detonation if it was not necessary. It would be five levels, each successive level more sterile than the other, from level 1 being non-sterile, to level 5 being as sterile as possible. Years before, a group of biologists proposed to the President that, in case of an unknown biological agent getting out into the country, an underground secret base should be set up to study the organism, and possibly try to find a cure. The systems that have been set up to take over in the event. When, after the two find all the dead bodies in the town, everything goes silent, he knows something has gone very wrong and calls in the problem. The person in charge is back at base, listening to them. When they get out of the vehicle to investigate, they die too, while being monitored by radio. Tracking crews are sent out to find the satellite and find it and head into the town, but they find most of the inhabitants of Piedmont lying dead, clutching their chest, in the middle of the main street. The satellite lands in a very small town in northeast Arizona called Piedmont. Then, with the seventh satellite, they get something.

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton