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Jennifer Darien and Jason McCaine, two young research fellows at the National Institutes of Health, stumble upon a massive conspiracy to alter, the genetic future of humankind
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This action-filled suspense novel, a fiction debut, pits two young scientists against a U.S. Defense Department and scientific establishment gone berserk. Doctors Jason McCane and Jennifer Darien come to Washington as fellows of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. They are soon involved in projects engineered by Dr. Paul Kalia, a charismatic scientist who seeks to change social behavior by manipulating brain activity and through gene transfers. The fledgling researchers discover, however, that Dr. Kalia is more than charismatiche's power-mad, and so is his patron, the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Smoothly paced as it builds to an exciting conclusion, the book nonetheless suffers from a basic lack of credibility. Its theme of science and bureaucracy gone haywire, which presumes two madmen at top levels of power, is fictional overkill. And the denouement occurs in a setting that's particularly hard to believe: a secret three-mile-long, 600-foot-high underground laboratory near Washington.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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YA-- Genetic engineering is the central theme of this suspenseful novel of murder, intrigue, and conspiracy. Two young doctors unravel a deadly plot that involves a secret, simulated jungle population of animals whose brains have been altered and chemically stimulated to make them kill. Victoroff has created characters and a setting at the National Institute of Health that will draw readers into the plot, and the use of visual imagery, suspenseful plot twists, characterization, as well as the theme, will keep them interested. Robin Cook fans will want to take note of this author's first novel.
- Susan Penny, St. Cecilia's School, Houston
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- PublisherCrown
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0517571277
- ISBN 13 9780517571279
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages233
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