Kalahari

Jessica Khoury

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UPC:
9781595147660
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2016-01-19
Release Date:
2016-01-19
Author:
Jessica Khoury
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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Product Overview

Survivormeets James Bond in this page-turning mix of realism and science fiction.
Voice of Youth Advocates


Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret
But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own?

When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. Its up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate.

But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything shes ever known about the natural world. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lions silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire areaand eliminate life as they know it.

In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.

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