Dead on Arrival, Matt Richtel
Dead on Arrival, Matt Richtel
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Dead on Arrival
A Novel

Author: Matt Richtel

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 12 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/01/2017


Synopsis

A mysterious disorder threatens to destroy the world in this high-concept thriller from Pulitzer Prize—winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel, which combines medical science, cutting-edge technology, and breathtaking suspense in the vein of Michael Crichton.An airplane lands at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. On board, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. A lethal new kind of virus may have surfaced, threatening our survival, and now Martin—one of the most sought after virologists on the planet until his career took a precipitous slide—is at the center of the investigation. The symptoms are the most confounding the experienced doctor has ever seen. Is it the work of terrorists? A biological attack? A natural occurrence? As word of the deadly sickness spreads, panic leads to violence and chaos. Armed and terrified partisans and patriots, stoked by technology and social media, have dug in, unknowingly creating fertile ground for the deadly syndrome Dr. Martin has begun to identify. As the globe begins to unravel and paranoia and hatred take hold, Martin is forced to face a question as terrifying as this syndrome itself: is the world better left unsaved? Moving at a breakneck pace from the labs of the Centers for Disease Control to the secret campus of Google X to the marble halls of the Capitol, Dead on Arrival is a brilliantly imaginative, high-concept thriller that draws on Matt Richtel's years of science and technology reporting for the New York Times, and establishes him as one of the premier technological thriller writers working today.

About Matt Richtel

MATT RICHTEL is a health and science reporter at the New York Times. He spent nearly two years reporting on the teenage mental-health crisis for the paper’s acclaimed multipart series Inner Pandemic, which won first place in public-health reporting from the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and inspired his book How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving, which he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom

I loved the plot of this book and the beginning really grabs you. Unfortunately, this is the high point in the book and the authors attempt at keeping my interest for the balance of the book falls short. Maybe it is just me, but I like story lines that make sense, are logical based on the characters......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

This book was disappointing. I liked the premise, but the plot changed into something else entirely. I never got a good sense of the characters and didn't particularly care for them or what was happening to them. I finished it because I was curious where it was going and how it would end. It's a qui......more

Goodreads review by Nicole

The biggest crime of this book was the blurb on top comparing it to the likes of Stephen King and Michael Crichton. How dare they compare this garbage to those great authors. I was expecting to be taken on a thrilling ride with this book, but it didn't live up to my expectations. Didn't even live up......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne

Good concept that got bogged down in the middle with poor pacing and awkward dialog. The opening scene is really good and grabs the reader immediately. Unfortunately, the author wastes that momentum with characters that are all hard to like and difficult to root for; when they leave the plane, I fou......more