Prey
- ISBN-10
- 0739431382
- ISBN-13
- 9780739431382
- Series
- Prey
- Category
- Artificial life
- Pages
- 660
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Author
- Michael Crichton
Description
Deep in the remote Nevada desert, eight people are trapped inside of the Xymos Corporation by a rapidly evolving swarm of predatory molecules that have massed together to form a powerful and intelligent organism that is targeting its creators.
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