The Andromeda Strain

Author: Michael Crichton

A military satellite returns to earth in northern Arizona. A team sent to recover the satellite breaks radio contact mysteriously. Because an infection is suspected, a team of scientists is sent to investigate, they find everybody in a small town is dead except for two survivors---an old man, and a screaming infant. These two, and the satellite, are taken to an underground laboratory where an organism called the Andromeda Strain is isolated, and nearly kills all of mankind.