Gun of God
Thomas Courmaine, a geneticist, a maverick Jesuit and a card-carrying idealist, is banished to Africa for his own well-being. There, intrigued by age-old bush medicine, he stumbles upon the long-sought solution to the riddle of gene therapy and his stars are about to dance.
Watershed stuff, it will pave the way for eradicating thousands of diseases…on the cheap. With gene therapy freely available, people rarely get ill. Thus, who needs drugs? Or doctors and hospitals? With trillions of dollars at stake, the pharma-industry offers Courmaine an alliance, if only he’ll play ball. When he refuses, they take aim, intending to thwart his quest of bringing free health care to the vast numbers needing it.
Courmaine’s discovery makes it relatively simple to quickly edit and even re-edit one’s DNA. The “gene gun” soon fires, and a new era explodes. The race is on to see who can become faster, brighter, more beautiful...and thus what began as a magical panacea now looms as a full-fledged curse.
All the way through, he is beset by a woman, who—financially backs him when others refuse—will ultimately turn on him, viciously so. He is enamored of an Iraqi-American Jew, but events lead him to believe she is forever lost. He is main need of her when the time comes for him to cope with the irony of undoing what great things he has done for humanity.
The Law of Unintended Consequences runs amuck in this tale, and its turns and its twists squeeze Thomas Courmaine relentlessly.
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Watershed stuff, it will pave the way for eradicating thousands of diseases…on the cheap. With gene therapy freely available, people rarely get ill. Thus, who needs drugs? Or doctors and hospitals? With trillions of dollars at stake, the pharma-industry offers Courmaine an alliance, if only he’ll play ball. When he refuses, they take aim, intending to thwart his quest of bringing free health care to the vast numbers needing it.
Courmaine’s discovery makes it relatively simple to quickly edit and even re-edit one’s DNA. The “gene gun” soon fires, and a new era explodes. The race is on to see who can become faster, brighter, more beautiful...and thus what began as a magical panacea now looms as a full-fledged curse.
All the way through, he is beset by a woman, who—financially backs him when others refuse—will ultimately turn on him, viciously so. He is enamored of an Iraqi-American Jew, but events lead him to believe she is forever lost. He is main need of her when the time comes for him to cope with the irony of undoing what great things he has done for humanity.
The Law of Unintended Consequences runs amuck in this tale, and its turns and its twists squeeze Thomas Courmaine relentlessly.
Gun of God
Thomas Courmaine, a geneticist, a maverick Jesuit and a card-carrying idealist, is banished to Africa for his own well-being. There, intrigued by age-old bush medicine, he stumbles upon the long-sought solution to the riddle of gene therapy and his stars are about to dance.
Watershed stuff, it will pave the way for eradicating thousands of diseases…on the cheap. With gene therapy freely available, people rarely get ill. Thus, who needs drugs? Or doctors and hospitals? With trillions of dollars at stake, the pharma-industry offers Courmaine an alliance, if only he’ll play ball. When he refuses, they take aim, intending to thwart his quest of bringing free health care to the vast numbers needing it.
Courmaine’s discovery makes it relatively simple to quickly edit and even re-edit one’s DNA. The “gene gun” soon fires, and a new era explodes. The race is on to see who can become faster, brighter, more beautiful...and thus what began as a magical panacea now looms as a full-fledged curse.
All the way through, he is beset by a woman, who—financially backs him when others refuse—will ultimately turn on him, viciously so. He is enamored of an Iraqi-American Jew, but events lead him to believe she is forever lost. He is main need of her when the time comes for him to cope with the irony of undoing what great things he has done for humanity.
The Law of Unintended Consequences runs amuck in this tale, and its turns and its twists squeeze Thomas Courmaine relentlessly.
Watershed stuff, it will pave the way for eradicating thousands of diseases…on the cheap. With gene therapy freely available, people rarely get ill. Thus, who needs drugs? Or doctors and hospitals? With trillions of dollars at stake, the pharma-industry offers Courmaine an alliance, if only he’ll play ball. When he refuses, they take aim, intending to thwart his quest of bringing free health care to the vast numbers needing it.
Courmaine’s discovery makes it relatively simple to quickly edit and even re-edit one’s DNA. The “gene gun” soon fires, and a new era explodes. The race is on to see who can become faster, brighter, more beautiful...and thus what began as a magical panacea now looms as a full-fledged curse.
All the way through, he is beset by a woman, who—financially backs him when others refuse—will ultimately turn on him, viciously so. He is enamored of an Iraqi-American Jew, but events lead him to believe she is forever lost. He is main need of her when the time comes for him to cope with the irony of undoing what great things he has done for humanity.
The Law of Unintended Consequences runs amuck in this tale, and its turns and its twists squeeze Thomas Courmaine relentlessly.
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| BN ID: | 2940013534209 |
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| Publisher: | Pen & Pencil Press LLC |
| Publication date: | 11/23/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 576 |
| File size: | 890 KB |
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