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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Former ER doctor Peter Clement blends electrifying human drama with the suspense of top-notch medical thrillers. Now, in an all-too-plausible story that could have been torn from today's headlines, Clement has written his most gripping, utterly chilling novel to date.On an isolated stretch of moonlit highway in Oahu, a woman cradles her dying son in her arms. Though a physician, she cannot staunch the flow of foamy blood from his body. In the show more days that follow, an autopsy draws a shocking conclusion: the boy, his lungs filled with blood, died of a disease previously found only in birds.
On the other side of the globe, a burned-out ER doctor repeats to himself over and over: Physician, heal thyself. For Dr. Richard Steele, a near fatal heart attack in the middle of his own hospital was the last warning he needed. Now Steele is being recruited into a movement to examine the hazards of genetically modified foods, a job that takes him to an explosive conference in Hawaii.
Spearheaded by a charismatic female doctor, the anti-bioengineering movement is gathering steam. While a powerful company is using genetic breakthroughs to create new, disease-resistant super crops, activists warn that new DNA strains will wreak havoc on the environment. But no one suspects that the controversy is masking a far more frightening human threat.
From the war-torn Middle East to an insulated laboratory in New York, from murder in a French cathedral to an act of terrifying violence at a remote Hawaii farm, a horrific plot is set in motion. With genetic researching opening new doors, one man has realized that altered strains of DNA cannot only change the make up of plant life—they can create the deadliest weapon of mass destruction ever unleashed upon the world. show less
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This has much the feel of a Michael Crichton work. It's very much a cautionary tale, that I fear came too late (some studies imply that the cause of many "avant garde" allergies {such a wheat gluten} are caused by the genetic modifications of our foods and pesticides.
It was overall a good book, though the characters were very cookie-cutter for this type of book.
It was overall a good book, though the characters were very cookie-cutter for this type of book.
Mutant by Peter Clement is an interesting proposition - a medical thriller, a virus/disease novel, a grand conspiracy, a story of contaminated food, a story of corporate negligence, a story of murder and attempted murder with a few sex scenes thrown in.
Whilst the main thrust of the plot involves corporations genetically engineering food with potentially unknown consequences it turns into an investigation of such with the idea that the consequences are not so unknown but rather covered up, and actively so. As things progress it seems that further development and dispersion is taking place for reasons that are yet to be revealed.
It's a pretty good tale, however it could have used some more length to properly cover all the aspects of the show more corporate negligence and plotting it attempted to bring into the plot, as would have further attention been given to the Farsi speaking security guards which seemed to be addressed rather minimally towards the end. show less
Whilst the main thrust of the plot involves corporations genetically engineering food with potentially unknown consequences it turns into an investigation of such with the idea that the consequences are not so unknown but rather covered up, and actively so. As things progress it seems that further development and dispersion is taking place for reasons that are yet to be revealed.
It's a pretty good tale, however it could have used some more length to properly cover all the aspects of the show more corporate negligence and plotting it attempted to bring into the plot, as would have further attention been given to the Farsi speaking security guards which seemed to be addressed rather minimally towards the end. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2001
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