Just outside Piedmont, Utah – a town of five hundred and eighty souls – a United States Army satellite plummeted from the sky, disrupting the hesitant intimacy of two teenagers. With a mixture of curiosity and audacity, the young men resolv…

The president faces a grave choice. To avert a nuclear catastrophe—one that would paradoxically empower the very threat known as the "Andromeda Strain"—the team must navigate the building’s defenses, designed to preclude any contamination.