TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beck, Greig,
TI  - The first bird
SN  - 9781760080532 (paperback)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Sydney, New South Wales
PB  - Momentum
KW  - Viruses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Archaeologists
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Australian
KW  - Suspense fiction
N2  - Matt Kerns, linguist, archaeologist and reluctant explorer from Beneath the Dark Ice and Black Mountain, returns in his first full-time adventure. And this time he doesn't have Alex Hunter to save him when the stuff hits the fan. When a fame-hungry scientist brings an impossible, living specimen of a creature long thought extinct back from the wild jungles of South America he unwittingly brings along a passenger. Something with the potential to destroy every living thing on our planet. The infestation begins, rapidly overtaking medical resources and resisting all treatment. One woman knows the danger: Carla Nero, chief scientist of the Centre for Disease Control. She makes Matt an offer he can't refuse and together they join a team heading to the deep jungle in a desperate race to locate the hidden place where the specimen was taken
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