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CARD - Ender 03. Xenocide
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CARD - Ender 03. XenocideEnder and Valentine Wiggin are brother and sister who both share the gift of genius. The monstrous Starways Congress has sent a warfleet to their home planet of Lusitania, containing two alien species and the deadliest virus ever known. They have also issued the order to destroy the planet.
Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effect of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way and a second Xenocide seems inevitable, until the Fleet vanishes.

 
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Tags: Lusitania, Ender, Xenocide, planet, virus
Whiteout by Ken Follett
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Whiteout by Ken Follett
Whiteout
a novel by Ken Follett
Human betrayal, medical terror and a race against time... Jealousies, distrust, and hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing. As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting. As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets are revealed that threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever.

Filled with startling twists, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from an international bestselling author who is in a class by himself.


Секретная правительственная лаборатория ограблена! Сверхсовременная система сигнализации почему-то не сработала. Лаборант, занимавшийся разработкой вакцины против таинственного вируса, погиб. И похищен контейнер, содержащий смертельный вирус. Кто преступники? Почему подвергают угрозе жизни сотен тысяч людей?! Расследование начинает начальник службы безопасности лаборатории Тони Галло. Пока ее единственная надежда - снежная буря, которая должна хотя бы на время остановить преступников!..
 
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Tags: family, Stanley, virus, their, Follett