The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

The novel that redefined the technology fiction genre, starring a crew of scientists who ought to find what killed the residents of a sleepy desert city—and prevent the deadly contagion before it creates a catastrophe.

A navy area probe, despatched to acquire extraterrestrial organisms from the top atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the citizens of a sleepy desert city in Arizona, leaving only survivors: an aged addict and a newborn infant.

The United States authorities are compelled to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-mystery emergency reaction protocol. Four of the nation’s maximum elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory placed 5 tales underneath the desert and equipped with an automatic atomic self-destruction mechanism for instances of irremediable contamination.

Under situations of general information blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientist’s race to recognize and include the crisis. But the Andromeda Strain proves distinctive from something they’ve ever seen—and what they don’t understand couldn’t handiest harm them, however, cause extraordinary global catastrophe.