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Robert O'Brien

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A Report from Group 17
Year 1972
Publisher Coronet  (Victor Gollancz)
ISBN 0340181613
 

 

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The virus that could destroy mankind was begun in a Nazi laboratory, perfected by the Russians and now existed only minutes away from the White House.  Some little way up-river from Washington was a kind of miniature Kremlin - a mansion that - except for the fact that the villa Petrograd was hung with secrecy, contained sophisticated microbiological equipment and was fringed by a private zoo that seemed unusually well supplied with primate specimens.

In charge of "operations" was Dr Helmuth Schutz, former Nazi scientist now working for the Russians.  And against him the intelligence people were forced to use all their wits to get to the real reason behind his recent experiments, and the possible disasters that lay behind them.

 

 

Review


As frightening as The Andromeda Strain, as suspenseful as The Tashkent Crisis - this is a novel that is taut and fascinating from first sentence to last.
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Madagascar in Blue and Green

 

 

Credit: NASA

Madagascar in Blue and Green
On the northwestern coast of Madagascar, the salty waters of the Mozambique Channel penetrate inland to join with the freshwater outflow of the Betsiboka River, forming Bombetoka Bay. Numerous islands and sandbars have formed in the estuary from the large amount of sediment carried in by the Betsiboka River and have been shaped by the flow of the river and the push and pull of tides.

This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite shows Bombetoka Bay just upstream of where it opens up into the Mozambique Channel, which separates Madagascar from Africa to the west. In the image, water is sapphire and tinged with pink where sediment is particularly thick. Dense vegetation is deep green.

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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