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Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
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Change Agent (original 2017; edition 2017)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.
On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle?? and his transformation begins. . . .


In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution??preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance their technology.

With the worlds of genetic crime and human trafficking converging, Durand and his fellow Interpol agents discover that one figure looms behind it all: Marcus Demang Wyckes, leader of a powerful and sophisticated cartel known as the Huli jing.

But the Huli jing have identified Durand, too. After being forcibly dosed with a radical new change agent, Durand wakes from a coma weeks later to find he's been genetically transformed into someone else??his most wanted suspect: Wyckes.

Now a fugitive, pursued through the genetic underworld by his former colleagues and the police, Durand is determined to restore his original DNA by locating the source of the mysterious??and highly valuable??change agent. But Durand hasn't anticipated just how difficult locating his enemy will be. With the technology to genetically edit the living, Wyckes and his Huli jing could be anyone and everyone??and they have plans to undermine identity itself.
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Title:Change Agent
Authors:Daniel Suarez (Author)
Info:Dutton (2017), 416 pages
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I was looking forward to reading this book. I heard the author had written some interesting near future books. The problem with this book was very simple. The antagonist were more interesting than the protagonist. I didn't mind the techno-babble, in fact I was looking forward to reading this book because of the techno-babble. The problem was as I read through the book I never cared for the main character. He was just some guy on the run. The parts when the antagonists were the parts that felt interesting. As the story progressed I had trouble wanting to come back this story. I did't want to read about the problem the antagonist was going to because I didn't have an emotional connection to what he was facing. The lack of balance of hard science and human drama was what made this book boring to me. This book is a movie waiting to happen but it would have change many parts of it to make the main character far more empathetic. The rest of the story is fairly straight forward and I dare say generic.

I received this book via NetGalley. I thank them for this book. #NetGalley ( )
  Kurt.Rocourt | Jun 14, 2021 |
When people can change their DNA, everything changes.

The tech is a little incredible. The same for the government control of it. I hope if we ever get there, we will have adapted to the possibilities a little better. But it makes for a very intense story. ( )
  jercox | Jun 2, 2021 |
On his sixth day, Man recreated man, and he saw that it was profitable. ( )
  snorrelo | Feb 22, 2021 |
On his sixth day, Man recreated man, and he saw that it was profitable. ( )
  snorrelo | Feb 22, 2021 |
This is a very good book 9/10, exploring issues of genetics, human enhancement, refugees, and transnational crime. Suarez is one of my favorite authors, and this is another good book from him. It wasn't quite up to Daemon/Freedom level for me, but beat Kill Decision, and was far better than Influx.

He really missed out on a chance to make the book great, like the best PK Dick books, when he made explicit the plot twist/ambiguity in the first few chapters, in a fairly artificial introduction of the antagonists detached from the rest of the story. If he had left the ambiguity for the reader until the very end of the book, it would have been a bit more challenging, but a far better book.

The audiobook performance was excellent, and due to the style, probably superior to the written book. ( )
  octal | Jan 1, 2021 |
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Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
— The Tempest,
William Shakespeare
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For my mother, Jane Haisser. You will always be my hero.
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"Before we begin, have you any questions about genetic editing, Mr. and Mrs. Cherian?”
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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.
On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle?? and his transformation begins. . . .


In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution??preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance their technology.

With the worlds of genetic crime and human trafficking converging, Durand and his fellow Interpol agents discover that one figure looms behind it all: Marcus Demang Wyckes, leader of a powerful and sophisticated cartel known as the Huli jing.

But the Huli jing have identified Durand, too. After being forcibly dosed with a radical new change agent, Durand wakes from a coma weeks later to find he's been genetically transformed into someone else??his most wanted suspect: Wyckes.

Now a fugitive, pursued through the genetic underworld by his former colleagues and the police, Durand is determined to restore his original DNA by locating the source of the mysterious??and highly valuable??change agent. But Durand hasn't anticipated just how difficult locating his enemy will be. With the technology to genetically edit the living, Wyckes and his Huli jing could be anyone and everyone??and they have plans to undermine identity itself.
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