Prey

<p>In the Nevada desert an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self -reproducing. It Is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes it is alive.</p><p>It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly becoming more deadly with each passing hour.</p><p>Every attempt to destroy it has failed.</p><p>And we are the prey.</p><p>As fresh as today's headlines Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. <em>Prey </em>is a novel you can't put down.</p><p>Because time is running out.</p>