Limited Time - Hardcover

Greer, Robert

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089296684X ISBN 13: 9780892966844

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 2000

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When one of his closest friends and colleagues, Dr. Tess Gilliam, a Nobel-track scientist, turns up murdered execution style, pathologist Henry Bales believes that her death is linked to the research of maverick scientist Neil Cardashian, who claims to have unlocked the secrets of aging. 15,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Robert Greer is a professor of pathology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

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A world-class swimmer breaks a record, then dies gruesomely. Soon thereafter, a world-class medical researcher meets an equally gothic end, postmortem results linking the two deaths in a shocking though fascinating way. Fascinating, that is, if you're Dr. Tess Gilliam and know your stuff about telomerase, the enzyme found in both corpses in suspicious quantities. Obvious overdosing, but who did it and why? Were the deaths the result of irresponsible and illegal experimentation by ambitious scientists in a heedless race for glittering prizes? Or is there a more mundane kind of greed involved? Telomerase, after all, is the so-called ``fountain of youth'' drug, and it doesn't take a Nobel laureate to know that billions might be involved if it can ever be brought to market. When steadfast Tess joins the growing list of telomerase-related fatalities, her friend and colleague Dr. Henry Bales becomes enragedin a way he hasn't been since he soldiered in Vietnam. Tess's killer has to pay, he tells C.J. Floyd, his former comrade in arms. Enlisting the aid of Dr. Sandi Artorio, as leggy and luscious as she is telomerase-fluent, the allies dig in, sift clues, and finally identify the master criminal dragged in from left field. Too bad C.J., the black bail-bondsman hero of Greer's three previous novels (The Devil's Backbone, 1997, etc.), is only peripheral here. Confronting bigotry on Denver's mean streets with toughness and panache, C.J. is a fully realized character. Among white-bread scientists, he seems colorless, pointless, and as lifeless as the rest. (Author tour) -- Copyright �1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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