Review: A genetic engineering company brings back extinct animals and perhaps something they shouldn't have!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2012
Donna Bailey is a young veterinarian who loves her work.  She lives in North Dakota and likes working with the local people and ranch owners taking care of their pets and livestock.  Lately she has been troubled by something that is affecting cows, goats, horses and sheep and making them all very ill.  All of her tests for common known diseases had turned up negative and her test results from the university haven't come back yet.Mike Shafer is a statistical analyst for the Center of Disease Control in Atlanta.  It is his job to find trends in medical issues that could be the information trail needed to identify an outbreak of some medical problem. He notices an uptick in the data indication a high number of patients all experiencing similar symptoms of illness.  They have tremors, shakes, full blown seizures and even a couple of deaths.  Mike convinces his bosses that there is a potential problem with statistical evidence.  Due to the lack of available staff Mike is asked by his boss to go to McKenzie County, ND to see if he can find the cause of the outbreak. What follows will change Mike's life forever and involves the entire world....This is a story in the near future about genetic engineering gone wrong and greed driving poor decisions by a startup company about to make billions of dollars from their research.  This is a good book and I enjoyed reading it.  There were a few places where the storyline slowed down too much as it goes into so much detail about the care of the ranch animals but the story is still entertaining.  There are also some editing errors, spelling errors and grammatical errors but not enough to detract from the story which remained interesting and kept me reading on.I became engaged with the characters in the book and overall the premise of the story is interesting.  It is a sort of Jurassic Park style of plot with the potential end of the world thrown in for good measure.  It shows you how fragile modern society and business is when simple things go catastrophically go wrong.  The food chain is one that affects us all and it can have serious consequences on our way of life but if a pandemic is involved that humans can catch then it is doubly dangerous!It is an entertaining read and I think you might like it also.