Crimsy

A YOUNG SCIENTIST and her research team are thrust into a global battle for control of the greatest discovery in scientific history: a harmless microbe they found on Mars that may have brought the first life to Earth.

FOUND IN SPACE . . .

Politics, marsquakes, dust storms, and landslides: PhD-to-be Jen Z and her fellow researchers have come through it all tofinallyfind life on Mars. Their years-long quest may have even bigger implications than anyone imagined. The harmless Martian microbe they discoveredscientific name Crimsococcus halocryophilus, nickname "Crimsy"may have brought the first life to Earth, hitching a ride on rocks or dust from the Red Planet billions of years ago. But to find out for sure means studies and tests in labs here at home. Not so fast, say corporations and governments who helped finance the mission. They're holding our history-making visitor hostage...