pstrongHE WAS NOT PREPARED.strongppbrppemBorn from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael AnderleemppbrppstrongFountain of Youth, or Valley of DeathstrongppbrppWhile eating his supper of microwave popcorn, PhD student-genius Salinger Jacobs is grabbed from his apartment in California, stuck on a C-130 military plane and sent to the Sahara Desert to witness the reality of the ZOO for himself.ppbrppstrongWith the life expectancy of untrained scientists working inside the ZOO measured in hours, he has a lot to learn.strongppbrppemFast.emppbrppFirst order of businessppbrppstrongHow do you shoot a gun, and just emHOW MUCH emis that plant worthstrongppbrppThe government needs the best of the best military and scientific minds working out how to pull the secrets from the ZOO, while keeping the deadly fauna and flora in check.ppbrppThere is one major problem, Salinger doesn't even emhave ema PhD.ppbrppIf he can stay alive long enough, he might be able to afford something besides