Dust, Charles Pellegrino
Dust, Charles Pellegrino
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Dust

Author: Charles Pellegrino

Narrator: Jay O. Sanders

Abridged: 4 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/1998

Synopsis


The good news: the bugs are all dead.
The bad news: we're next.

The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone can realize it, the earth's ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old world are finished.

In an idyllic Long Island community, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect that the environment has begun to wage bloody, terrifying war on humanity. What initially appear to be random, unrelated events are, in actuality, violent eruptions in a worldwide biological chain reaction. Along with a brave group of survivors, Sinclair must learn to understand the catastrophe while it roils around them, slowly crumbling a panicked world and energizing a reactionary fringe that welcomes the apocalypse. The survival of humankind depends on finding an answer immediately - or all else is dust.

Charles Pellegrino, whose dinosaur cloning theory informed Michael Crichton's bestselling Jurassic Park, has fashioned a heart-stopping thriller which uses scientific speculation as the basis for a masterful exercise in edge-of-the-seat suspense. Brilliantly inventive, frighteningly authentic, Dust is a literary ride that will leave listeners gasping for breath as its heroes confront the final destiny of their species.

About Charles Pellegrino

Charles Pellegrino is the author of numerous novels and nonfiction titles relating to science and archaeology. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nadienne on January 09, 2020

Wow! I was honestly caught by surprise by this book. I feel like the plot synopsis really does not do all of what happens in this book justice - and even seems to indicate that this book ends on a happy note (spoilers: it does not). Having just finished another book, "Cold Plague," which was a viral......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 16, 2015

Scientist and marine archaeologist Dr Charles Pellegrino turns his hand to this thought provoking eco-horror story. At time it might seem that the author gets bogged down in scientific explanation but to many this will only serve to back up the chilling spiral of events with a plausible reason for t......more

Goodreads review by Tim on July 31, 2021

_Dust_ was a gripping and unique end-of-the-world novel, unlike any that I have read before and I consider myself a fan of the genre. The book is set in the relatively near future, in the first decade or two of the 21st century. The action begins when Richard Sinclair, a paleontologist, working at a......more

Goodreads review by Tom on August 21, 2017

I thought I would never finish this book. And its not because the science could drag the story down while preaching at you at the same time; the 'story' part was just so bad. There was no possible way to feel any thing for any of the characters, they were all one dimensional and tedious. I gave it t......more

Goodreads review by David on June 21, 2024

Michael Crichton on steroids, which makes sense considering it was this author's research on "dino DNA" in amber, not Crichton's (along with a well-timed Omni magazine article), that led to the hugely successful Jurassic Park books and films. This novel has gotta be the best thriller to combine the......more

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