New York Times-bestselling author Robin Make assumes the cutting-edge world of gene-modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.

When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the brand new York City subway and dies upon achieving the hospital, her case can be an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack port Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the main one hundredth wedding anniversary from the nightmarish contagion, Jack autopsies the woman within about Pandemic hours of her demise and discovers some impressive anomalies: 1st, that she has had a heart transplant, and second, that, against all chances, her DNA fits that of the transplanted center.

Although the reality don’t soon add up to influenza, Jack must race against the clock to recognize the girl and determine what sort of virus could wreak such havoc–a task made more urgent when two other victims succumb to a similar rapid death. But nothing makes sense until his analysis leads him into the amazing world of CRISPR/CAS9, a gene-editing biotechnology that’s captured the creativity from the medical community . as well as the interest of its many unethical users. Drawn in to the dark underbelly from the organ transplant market, Jack will come face-to-face having a megalomaniacal businessman willing to risk human being lives to be able to overcome a lucrative brand-new frontier in medicine–and if Jack’s not really careful, the next life lost may be his own.