The book prey by Michael Crichton is a very interesting book. Mixed with some suspense and a lot of mystery keeps the reader alert on what will happen next. The novel is about a retired computer programmer, Jack that has 3 kids and a wife, who is a vice president of a nano technology company, Julia. While Jack struggles to keeping there kids schedules and being there for them, he also faces a possible divorce because he feels that she is having am affair because she’s been absent from home from her job. Her attitude toward the children was very odd and aggressive, even the kids felt that she was different. She was sent to the hospital from a car accident that had occurred. After the accident, Jack was notified to work and help where Julia works and he accepted to see what was going on. He went off to the lab, leaving the kids to be taken care of her sister, where it was being held at Mojave Desert. What he saw was much unexpected, a swarm of nano particles that escaped from an experiment and are uncontrollable. He found his old team he uses to work with but they didn’t seem themselves, they were more or less worried. They explained that the creation they made was under the orders of the government that they created the swarms because the have intelligence of other countries making drone to see the battlefield with a camera. They also added a program so they would act as predators and become lethal to its prey. That program was only known for Jack and only he knows the code. They are self sustaining and could reproduce themselves and become more deadly each hour. They must stop this before it reaches to a global threat and become an epidemic, leaving nothing for humanity.
Joel Ramos
Joel Ramos