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- ISBN: 9780727861061
- ISBN: 0727861069
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346 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Sutton : Severn House, 2004.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2004 December #2
British scientist Richard Parnell is recruited to work for leading American pharmaceutical firm Dubette. When he arrives on the job, eager to set up his own cutting-edge pharmacogenomics department, he learns that, far from being open and friendly as he was led to expect, the Dubette workplace is rigidly controlled and secretive. Commiserating with colleague Rebecca Lang leads to romance and the possibility of marriage, but Rebecca is extremely concerned about a missing drug shipment from France. Then she's killed in a car crash, and Richard is accused of running her off the road after a lover's quarrel. Richard soon realizes that Rebecca's death was no accident and that his own life may be in danger, especially when he discovers that a potentially lethal drug sample from Dubette's French subsidiary has been released in Africa. Despite patches of wooden dialogue (uncommon for genre vet Freemantle) and an overabundance of scientific jargon, this is a solid thriller that makes good use of a popular theme: the multinational drug company as bad guy. ((Reviewed December 15, 2004)) Copyright 2004 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2005 February #1
Man vs. the pharmacogenomics machine.Headhunters have lured dashing young scientist Richard Parnellâbrilliant, charismatic and just arrogant enough to invite hubrisâfrom England to become a rising star (read: profit-maker) at mighty Dubette, Inc., the humongous drug company. He's to lead Dubette's global genome project, aimed at converting human DNA research into product. A complex job, one that brings him into early confrontation with spiderish Dwight Newton, his boss. Newton likes it when underlings cringe, a view shared by his own boss, Edward C. Grant, Dubette's Napoleonic president. Viewed originally as a potential cringerâisn't everybody?âParnell disappoints, then seriously annoys. Still, with reasonable caution, he picks his way through Dubette's bureaucratic minefield. After all, he wants to do big science and has no real objection to getting rich; it's just that, at the same time, he refuses to imperil bedrock principles, a position that causes an attractive Dubette researcher to become his ally. Though Rebecca Lang describes herself as very "back of the bus" in Dubette terms, Parnell welcomes her supportâand, before long, finds himself welcome in her bed. They decide to live together, a plan horrifically terminated by Rebecca's murder. Police believe her car was deliberately rear-ended and forced off the road into a deep plunge. Police further believeâsupported by certain forensic evidenceâthat it was Parnell's car that did the forcing. They posit a deadly resolution to a violent lovers' quarrel. Parnell is arrested, cuffed and jailed: shocks brutal enough to crush the spirit of a lesser man. In Parnell's DNA, however, there is sterner stuff, and he vows to unmask Rebecca's killer, or what's a scientific method for?It's the ethicists squaring off against the moneychangers in a bristling, absorbing thriller. After 30-plus novels, Freemantle (The Holmes Inheritance, 2004, etc.), one of the genre's best pure storytellers, remains at the top of his game. Copyright Kirkus 2005 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
