Dead Certain

About the Book

When identical twins working for a Las Vegas casino are found murdered, FBI agent Roland Ingram's investigation reveals that both women were patients in a clinical trial involving nanotech-powered drug delivery. Because of her experience in pharmaceutical development, Dr. Dani Hunter, a brilliant but intense postdoctoral fellow with a dark past, becomes Ingram's reluctant partner.

Demonic in form, the lure of the weapons potential of this same nanotechnology is far too great for rival governments to resist. It attracts a Saudi sheik and the U.S. Defense Department, both determined to acquire the power for unnervingly similar purposes. As the global struggle for control begins, a phantom killer from San Francisco's past claims responsibility for the murders, sending the city into turmoil days before the Democratic Convention is to begin. A sensational murder and a startling realization lead to a race to prevent the technology, and whoever controls it, from creating human cybernauts programmed to kill.

Selective genetic targeting-the targeting of a race or an individual by its unique genetic pattern, and, ultimately, the extinction of a race by sterilization-is the end game for those bent on the destruction of civilization. The game begins here.

About the Author

C. V. Taylor Herst received his doctorate in cancer biology from Northwestern University. Since 1978, he has researched all manner of microorganisms. He commutes between his laboratories in Belgium and the San Francisco Bay Area.