Hired by the White House to help the investigation into a mysterious, 100% fatal disease that seems to be afflicting only Koreans living in Tokyo, geneticist ...
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Hired by the White House to help the investigation into a mysterious, 100% fatal disease that seems to be afflicting only Koreans living in Tokyo, geneticist Lara Blackwood is drawn into an international conspiracy concerning bioengineering, ethnic cleansing, and, on a more personal level, a hit woman out to kill everyone Lara knows.
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"Local Northern California author Lewis Perdue wrote the first edition of "Slatewiper" as an eBook in 1996. At that time, no one had thought of mapping the human genome, and yet that's part of what this book is about. He wrote an updated version of the book in 2002, and that's what I read.
Protagonist Lara Blackwood has done pioneering work which has allowed her to develop gene therapies for such ethnically evolved ailments as cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs and sickle-cell anemia. She is ousted from her position in the company she developed by a cabal that has figured out how to use the same research to create biological weapons aimed at specific ethnic groups.
As Lara untangles all of the particulars to determine who is behind the work, her life is (of course) endangered. The action ranges from Washington, DC, to Holland and Japan, and there is rarely a dull moment.
The ideas for this book come from Perdue's historical research into World War II and also his background in molecular biology. I was entertained by this novel and reminded very much of Michael Crichton's medical technothrillers. Crichton fans are likely to enjoy Perdue's work."
"I understand you can only have so many books with a terrorist and biochemical warfare plot, but this has a great point-of-view. A Japanese company buys an American company who is known for creating treatments to ethnicity-specific diseases. The American company had just created a chemical that , instead of saving a race, would kill them. The Japanese planned to use this chemical to destroy the Koreans, then alter the chemical for different races, and sell to the highest bidder. Pretty awesome stuff."
"This book ONLY has 5 stars from me because it was pivotal in my MA project research. It is not a particularly good book...though pulp thriller novels aren't my bag so I really only have Dan Brown to compare him to (and some very vague memories combining John Grisham movies and books)...and is-to use the old adage-PROBLEMATIC for a number of reasons, the main threads (pun...intended?) of genetic subject matter were sort of fascinating. And a little terrifying."
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