Thorn Boy

Barely into his first week at college, horticultural student, DERRICK STABB, gets caught in a deadly web as fellow students of unmistakable Aryan traits, vanish. Derrick is cast into the limelight of suspicion after he reveals to police a bloody discovery in a laboratory jar. Uncomfortably aware he fits the same qualities, Derrick suspects a faceless adversary-an expert in plant science-has hatched an unspeakable experiment linking human genes to an undiscovered blue rose.

The plot become...