Wake Up
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0747559570 / Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, August 2002
For John, a potato isn't just a staple food, it's also something wondrous, the secret of his success and the key to the future. With his brother, Greg, he has turned his father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest dealer in potatoes. Now he wants to change the world by introducing, through potatoes, edible vaccines.
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For John, a potato isn't just a staple food, it's wondrous, the secret of his success and key to the future. With his brother, Greg, he has turned their father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest dealer in potatoes. Now he wants to change the world by introducing, through potatoes, edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an edible alternative to injections. But as John spins round and round the ring road avoiding his turn-off to work he has to figure out how to tell his brother that, deep in the Venezuelan jungle, volunteers have died during the latest illegal trials. Deaths they have to find some way to hide.
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