Matt Richtel 
Dead On Arrival 
A Novel

MICHAEL CRICHTONmeets STEPHEN KINGat their finest with the creepiest opening Ive ever read. Lisa Gardner * Joins the ranks of classic paranoid thrillers about human achievement run amok, with STEPHEN KINGs The Standand Michael Crichtons Terminal Man. Joseph Finder *A heart-stopping thriller. amust-read for MICHAEL CRICHTONfans. Dallas Morning News* Similar in atmosphere and style to MICHAEL CRICHTONand STEPHEN KING. … A race-against-the-clock thriller. Booklist FLIGHT 194 LANDED.SOMETHING LETHAL AWAITS OUTSIDE.THIS IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL.An airplane touches down at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. Shortly after landing, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: Everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. The world has gone dark. While they were in the air, a lethal new kind of virus surfaced, threatening mankind’s survival, and now Martinone of the most sought-after virologists on the planet until his career took a precipitous slideis at the center of the investigation.Moving at lightning pace from the snowbound Rockies to the secret campus of Google X, where unlimited budgets may be producing wonders beyond our capacity to control, Dead on Arrival is a brilliantly imaginative, intricately plotted thriller that draws on Matt Richtel’s years of science and technology reporting for the New York Times, and establishes him as one of the premier thriller writers working today.