Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant. Inside, eight people are trapped - because outside, waiting for them is a predatory swarm of
micro-particles that they themselves created. The swarm is getting more powerful by the hour. About the Author Michael Crichton is the author of The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Jurassic
Park, Rising Sun, The Terminal Man, The Lost World, Airframe and Timeline. He is the winner of an Edgar Award (1980; The Great Train Robbery) as well as an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Writer’s Guild
of America Award for the television series ER.
