Slatewiper
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ISBN: 0765340666 / Publisher: Forge Books, October 2004
Asked to assist with a formidable epidemic sweeping through Tokyo, Lara Blackwood discovers that her life's work in genetics may have been exploited to transform people into killer life forms. By the author of Daughter of God. Reprint.
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* FACT: Bioweapons designers are developing deadly, genetically engineered, life-forms triggered by race- and ethnic-related genes.*FACT: DNA analysis shows that the human race has come close to extinction in the past.* QUESTION: Will "Slatewiper" bring the human race to the brink of extinction again?When Lara Blackwood, a brilliant genetic engineer, receives a call asking for her help in solving a ghastly epidemic in Tokyo, she's happy to do what she can . To her horror she discovers that her life's work has been perverted to produce a revolutionary new genetic weapon that kills by turning people's own ethnic-related chromosomes against them.Humanity's clock is ticking as Lara struggles against staggering odds to expose the conspiracy behind "Slatewiper"--before a nightmarish terrorist scheme threatens the entire human race with extinction!
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