Tess Gerritsen – Gravity

Gravity was the 5th novel by Tess Gerritsen to be part of the medical thriller genre and was her 13th book to be published.

This story was released on August 10, 1999.

Gravity book description:

Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space.

But her mission aboard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare beyond imagining when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control – and infects the space station crew with agonizing and deadly results.

Emma struggles to contain the outbreak while back on Earth her estranged husband, Jack McCallum, works frantically with NASA to bring her home.

But there will be no rescue.

The contagion now threatens Earth’s population, and the astronauts are stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station – where they are dying one by one…

Tess Gerritsen Gravity

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