Summary Of Michael Crichton's Prey

Prey is a novel written by Michael Crichton who was well recognize for his science and medical fiction work. The novel start as first person narration with main character Jack Forman, who study population biology and then became computer programmed which allow him to write his own code for his research. These later allow him to develop a career in the computer field. Julia whom is Jack wife’s who is high executives at Xymos technology company .Theses two has three children Nicole, Eric and Amanda. The main topic of the novel is the nanotechnology and thorough the story we see several different dilemmas like succeed, science and artificial intelligent. Also nowadays our society has many new technologies that are been use in similar manner as nanotechnology as it is cloning.
Nanotechnology “is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100
First we see how Julia who is evidently self centered person and is drive by her own desires to success putting t in risk herself and her family. She make her youngest daughter sick after been expose to nanoparticles and then exposed herself and become infected by the swarm .Then we have Jack who seem to always look to do the right thing for everyone wellbeing.
On the other hand we have Jack the leading character and narrator in day 1 he narrated how he got fired from Media Tronics after find out that one Don Gross high executive of the company was doing illegal activities.He also has put up with Julia’s selfishness just to keep their family together. Later he again he is hired for Media Tronics but this time a consultant, the company need him to help fixd some issues they were having with system sold to Xymos.
While he is working at Xymos plant and discovered that what that “unable to construct genuine nanossembler Xymos was using to crank out molecules. This was generic engineering, not nanotechnology”(P135).