Oaths and miracles
By: Nancy Kress.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Recombinant DNA -- Fiction.
Description: FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh thinks he's on to something. The showgirl lover of a dead New York mafioso is murdered in Las Vegas. Her last words are difficult to understand but included the name of Verico, which might refer to a bio-research company in New Jersey. An Ivy League scientist is found dead in a Boston parking lot after a job interview at Verico. And the Mafia has secretly invested in this firm doing cutting-edge work with recombinant DNA.

Cavanaugh knows it's all tied together, but not how, and he doesn't have enough hard evidence to convince his boss there's a case anywhere. People keep dying, but nothing makes sense, and Cavanaugh gets more desperate to find the key.