βThe ancestors are out thereβ¦you have to believe me.β
From acclaimed author Scott SiglerβNew York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagiousβcomes a tale of genetic experimentationβs worst nightmare come true.
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Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney.Β 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.
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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 humankindβs 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 rejection.
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There's just one problem: theseΒ ancestorsΒ are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, Coldingβs work has given birth to somethingΒ big, somethingΒ evil.
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With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive β even asΒ government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda. Β
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As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-rideβand offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.
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