Clay's Ark

Clay's Ark

213 pages
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Published: 1 Mar 1984
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ISBN: 9780446603706

Format: Mass market paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Warner Books

Publication date: 1 December 1996

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An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.

They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with it, developing amazing powers, near-immortality, unnatural desires - and a need to spread the contagion and create a secret colony of the transformed. Now the meaning of "survival" changes. For the babies born in the colony are clearly, undeniably, not human...

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