Похоже на Тома Клэнси «Прямая и явная угроза» (англ. Clear and Present Danger) (1989) на английском.
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The jungle, Chavez thought. It smelled, but he didn't mind the smell so much as the snakes. Chavez had never told anyone about it, but he hated and feared snakes. All kinds of snakes. He didn't know why--and it troubled him that fear of snakes was associated with women, not men--but even the thought of the slithering, slimy things made his skin crawl, those legless lizards with flicking tongues and lidless eyes. They hung from branches and hid under fallen trees, waiting for him to pass so that they could strike at whatever part of his anatomy offered itself. He knew that they would if they got the chance. He was sure that he would die if they did. So he kept alert. No snake would get him, not so long as he stayed alert. At least he had a silenced weapon. That way he could kill them without making noise. Fuckin' snakes.
Ryan thought that one over as he surveyed the room. Admiral Greer was getting his nourishment through clear plastic tubes. A blue-green gadget that looked like a splint kept the needles in his arm, but he could see where previous IV lines had "infiltrated" and left ugly bruises. That was always a bad sign. Next to the IV bottle was a smaller one, piggybacked with the D5W. That was the medication he was being given, the chemotherapy. It was a fancy name for poison, and poison was exactly what it was, a biocide that was supposed to kill the cancer a little faster than it killed the patient. He didn't know what this one was, some acronym or other that designated a compound developed at the National Institutes of Health instead of the Army's Chemical Warfare Center. Or maybe, Jack thought, they cooperated on such concoctions. Certainly Greer looked as though he were the victim of some dreadful, vicious experiment.
Ideonella sakaiensis (лат.) — вид грамотрицательных бактерий из группы протеобактерий. Эти организмы стали известны благодаря своей способности быстро разлагать полиэтилентерефталат (ПЭТ) — пластик, который широко используется при производстве упаковок и тары. Ранее похожие свойства разлагать пластмассы были выявлены только у некоторых грибов, например, нитчатого гриба Fusarium oxysporum[en]*, который может расти на минеральной среде, содержащей нити ПЭТ, и Pestalotiopsis microspora[en], способного поглощать полиуретан[1][2].
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