Mount Dragon

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

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Really good Preston & Child book but my heart is with the Pendergast series. Stil...great suspense, great writing and a riveting plot. (

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wcath | Jun 8, 2013 |

Guy Carson, a genetic microbiologist, is assigned to Mount Dragon to continue efforts to bio-engineer a virus that will alter the human genome to render immunity to influenza, saving millions of lives a year. As with most suspense novels of this genre, things go awry and the deadliest virus ever known to man results, threatening the existence of the race when the enigmatic biotech company founder explores the military applications of the new virus. There are stereotypical elements to this story that seem to pervade all the books and movies of the genre from "The Andromeda Strain" to "Outbreak", but the authors manage the suspense and the science with a sure hand that keeps it from seeming hackneyed. A good suspenseful read for a lazy weekend. (

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burnit99 | Feb 16, 2013 |

All Preston and Child's books are great fun, and Mount Dragon is no exception. It's fun to see them in the Robin Cook world of medical thrillers, which I hadn't seen them attempt before. It's not likely to win them any awards, but all their work is fast-moving, page-turning beach reading. Mount Dragon is well worth tucking into your suitcase for a good summer vacation read. (

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TheBentley | May 4, 2011 |

Douglas, Preston n Lincoln Child, Mount Dragon, Guy Carson n Susana Cabeza de Vaca work in a super secret, super-protected lab just under Mount Dragon New Mexico looking for the cure to flu after having developed PurBlood a synthetic that needs no typing. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
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Child, Lincoln	—	main author	all editions	confirmed

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Mount Dragon

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1996-02

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GeneDyne Remote Desert Testing Facility, Losthope, New Mexico, USA (fictitious)

White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA

Mount Dragon, New Mexico, USA

Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico, USA

El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, USA

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Garden State Book Award (Teen Fiction Grades 9-12, 1999)

Epigraph

Our symbols shout at the universe,
They fly off, like hunters' arrows
Into the night sky.
Or knapped spearpoints into flesh.

They race like fires across plains,
Driving buffalo.
—Franklin Burt

One window upon Apocalypse is more than enough.
—Susan Wright/Robert L. Sinsheimer,
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Dedication

To Jerome Preston, Senior
—D. P.

To Luchie; my parents; and Nina Soller
—L. C.

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The sounds drifted over the long green lawn, so faint they could have been the crying of ravens in the nearby wood, or the distant braying of a mule on the farm across the brown river.

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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed . . . .

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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed.… (more)

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