num_pages: 512
description: With an assist from the Human Genome Project, Vikon Corporation, a bioengineering company on the island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean, has deciphered the key in our DNA to human aging - literally the cure for everything. Now operating beyond all US government and industry regulation, Vikon, headed by eugenicist Anthony Beecher, is about to transform a select group of humans into something altogether new - Homo Sapiens Immortalis. And no one can stop him. High-tech journalist Kate Lipton wades into this high-stakes thicket unwittingly amid rumors of a group of AIDS sufferers who have disappeared after traveling to Grenada in search of a miracle cure. She soon learns Anthony Beecher will stop at nothing to derail her investigation and prevent her exposing Vikon's activities; for Beecher, the stakes are financially and philosophically stratospheric. Anchored off Vikon's compound, Kate and partner Jack Sullivan discover Vikon's yacht, the Chimera, ferrying a stream of Fortune-500 types between the airport and Vikon's Grenadian lab. With Vikon security closing in and answers still elusive, she must finally resort to high-tech system hacking to uncover the truth. If the key to human immortality is unravelled, can and should that genie be put back in its bottle? Who should receive the immortality treatment, and who should decide? DOUBLE HELIX grapples with thorny questions, issues of great relevance to twenty-first century humankind in the age of genetic discovery. For in truth, the key to our species immortality may well be at hand.
language: English
title: Double Helix
titlecomplete: Double Helix
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Ashland Hills Pr