The Andromeda Strain Age Rating: What Age Is It Right For?

A military satellite crashes in an Arizona town and nearly all of its inhabitants die within minutes; a team of scientists is rushed to an underground biocontainment facility to identify and contain the extraterrestrial microorganism before it spreads. Written in the form of a government scientific report with technical appendices, the novel creates intense procedural dread from a threat that is entirely invisible. A founding text of the biological thriller.