The Genesis Flaw

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Allen & Unwin, Aug 1, 2010 - Fiction - 368 pages
'Taut and pacey, a thriller for our times. Larkin starts at a frantic pace and doesn't stop.' - Bunty Avieson, author of Apartment 255, The Affair and The Wrong Door

He kicked the leather chair away and instantly the rope snapped tight. His lungs burned and the veins in his face felt close to bursting. His brown eyes bulged as if in surprise. But he knew he had to die. It was his only option. Human experiments in Zimbabwe. An Australian farmer's death. A Sydney CEO's suicide. Only one woman sees the connection. Serena Swift is a ballsy advertising director with a guilty conscience who takes on the world's most powerful biotech company - Gene-Asis. Serena hooks up with a hacker and disguises herself to infiltrate Gene-Asis in an attempt to expose the company's horrific genetic experiments. She little realises her investigations are being watched. Suddenly, Swift's informants disappear, she is hunted by a hired killer and framed for murder. Chased from Sydney to New York, she must face the man she fears most, on his own turf. If she fails, nothing can stop a global catastrophe. And nobody can help her - except a dead man.

The Genesis Flaw is a fast-paced environmental thriller that is spine-chillingly pertinent for our times and will grip readers from beginning to end.
 

Contents

Cover Title Page About the author
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Chapter 01
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Chapter 13
Chapter 17
Chapter 20
Chapter 35
Chapter 41
Chapter 44
Chapter 49
Chapter 55
Chapter 60
Chapter 62
Chapter 69

Chapter 21
Chapter 31
Chapter 70

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About the author (2010)

L.A. Larkin divides her time between writing topical thrillers and her work for one of Australia's leading climate change consultancies. To research The Genesis Flaw she drew on her time in Zimbabwe, consulted with world-renowned geneticists and worked closely with a computer hacker, even attending a hackers' conference. She recently returned from Antarctica, which is the setting for her second book, Thirst, on a climate change catastrophe.

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