By: Scott Sigler
first hardcover
Crown
July 1, 2010
On Sale: June 22, 2010
Featuring: PJ Colding
320 pages
ISBN: 0307406334
EAN: 9780307406330
Hardcover
Book Summary
"The ancestors are out there...you have to believe
me."
From acclaimed author Scott Sigler--New
York Times bestselling creator of Infected and
Contagious--comes a tale of genetic experimentation's
worst nightmare come true.
Every five minutes, a
transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a
liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide
those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ...
and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on
that technology.
On a remote island in the Canadian
Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have
discovered this holy grail of medicine. By
reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals,
Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to
re-create humankind's common ancestor. The method? Illegal.
The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal
whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no
chance of transplant...
Originally published as a podcast novel