On an island off Georgia, clones are raised for body parts. After his girlfriend is eviscerated, clone Skyler flees to the mainland where he sees a book with the picture of a journalist who looks exactly like him. The two join forces to destroy the cloners. By the author of Neanderthal
John Darnton Libri
John Darnton è un narratore esperto la cui vasta esperienza come giornalista per il New York Times conferisce una profondità unica alla sua narrativa. Le sue opere spesso approfondiscono temi complessi, esplorando la natura umana e i dilemmi etici attraverso narrazioni avvincenti. Lo stile di Darnton è caratterizzato da una narrazione precisa e da un acuto sguardo sul mondo. I suoi romanzi sono apprezzati per la loro intelligenza e la capacità di coinvolgere i lettori in intricate avventure.





Neanderthal
- 368pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
You Haven't Been Back to the Future Like This Since Jurassic Park The most eagerly anticipated adventure novel of the year has arrived. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer John Darnton is about to take you on a fantastic journey that will make you believe the impossible. Rarely does a first novel capture the imagination of publishing insiders the way Neanderthal has. Sold to twelve foreign countries before its publication, a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Neanderthal is already an international sensation. It will take you only a few riveting pages to see why: In the mountains of northern Asia, a guerrilla fighter vanishes, a schoolgirl is murdered, and an eminent Harvard paleontologist disappears. to a shadowy government agency in Maryland, these wrong with the most extraordinary expedition ever mounted. Matt Mattison and Susan Arnot, who were once lovers and are now academic rivals, are dispatched to find the secret their Harvard mentor was seeking: a species linked to the origins of mankind. They have existed for ever forty thousand years. They possess powers man cannot even imagine. And in a world dominated by humans, they are about to alter the face of civilization forever. John Darnton combines breathtaking suspense, thorough scientific research, and dazzling storytelling as archaeologists and rival governments attempt to track down a relic band of creatures. Neanderthal . Their time has come.
Mind Catcher
- 436pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
New York City: A thirteen-year-old boy named Tyler lies in a hospital, his brain damaged in a tragic accident. By his bedside, his father stands helplessly, as two very different scientists take charge of the boy's fate. One is a neurosurgeon, whose unorthodox experiments use computers to control a patient's physical responses during surgery. The other is a researcher with experiments of his own, ones so secret he can reveal them to no one: his attempts to find the spark of human consciousness...and capture it forever. Together, they will produce a result beyond anything they could have conceived, sending Tyler far beyond the frontiers of medical science into an astonishing netherworld of man and machine - a place no living person has gone before and from which one desperate person will try to bring him back....
The Darwin Conspiracy
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
From the author of the bestselling Neanderthal comes this novel of gripping suspense and scientific conquest–a page-turning historical mystery that brilliantly explores the intrigue behind Darwin and his theory of evolution.It’s 1831, and aboard HMS Beagle the young Charles Darwin sets off down the English Channel for South America. More than 150 years later, two ambitious scholars pursuing their obsession with Darwin (and with each other) come across the diaries and letters of Darwin’s daughter. What they discover is a maze of violent rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, and the extraordinary story of an expedition embarked upon by two men. Only one returned–and changed history forever.
Neanderthaler
- 336pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Twee jonge paleontologen gaan op zoek naar hun verdwenen professor, die in Rusland sporen van nog levende Neanderthalers zou hebben gevonden.