I have read many books of this sort, but found this one to move fast, well written and attention getting. The author has done a good job in keeping my attention. It is written for the average person, with a word or two here and there that would require a dictionary, but the content of the paragraph will give you a clue what the word might mean. The characters are well suited for one another and the ending is incredible.
good story about what could happen....
One might wonder what thriller authors occupied themselves with before the onslaught of biotechnology: gene splicing, smart viruses, cloning techniques, and PCR-polymerase chain reactions are the current darlings of a host of writers, including Gary Braver (Elixir), Richard Preston (The Hot Zone), and Holden Scott (Skeptic). In Scott's second novel, The Carrier, Jack Collier, a Harvard Ph.D. candidate, has found a cure for cancer by engineering Streptococcus A bacteria--known to tabloid newspaper fans everywhere as flesh-eating bacteria--to recognize and attack tumors rather than healthy flesh. It's a personal victory as well as a scientific breakthrough: haunted for months by the knowledge that his girlfriend, Angie, is dying of ovarian cancer, Jack has labored endless hours in the hopes of saving her.
Excellent medical thriller - keeps you on your toes to the very end!
This is a great book! Deception and deviousness abound, almost causing a cataclysmic ending to life as we know it! A page turner!
Scientist Jack Collier has achieved the impossible: the conversion of a flesh-eating microbe into a miracle cure.....
An 'Andromeda Strain' for the 21st century....
An 'Andromeda Strain' for the 21st century....
