{"product_id":"9781429914383","title":"Slatewiper","description":"\u003cp\u003e* FACT: Our chromosomes contain billions of so-called \"junk DNA\" sequences. Some of them are the intact genetic blueprints of ancient gene-altering pathogens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* FACT: Bioweapons designers are developing deadly, genetically engineered, killer life-forms that are triggered by race-and ethnic-related genes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* FACT: DNA analysis shows that the human race has come extremely close to extinction in the past. One cause of this could have been a \"slatewiper\"-a lethal pestilence that nearly wiped the human slate clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* FACT: By the end of World War II, Japan's biowarfare arsenal was the most advanced in the world thanks to its inhumane medical experiments that equaled those of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe time has come for . . . \u003ci\u003eSlatewiper\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLara Blackwood, genetic engineering entrepreneur and presidential advisor, receives a call from an old college friend who asks her help in solving a ghastly epidemic in Tokyo. She agrees to help and, with a single phone call, sets in motion a chain of death and mayhem stretching from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., Amsterdam, and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo her horror, she discovers her life's work has been perverted to produce a revolutionary new genetic weapon that kills by turning people's own chromosomes against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Lara must risk assassination to expose the conspiracy behind \"Slatewiper\"-before a nightmarish terrorist scheme threatens the entire human race with extinction!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154109087984,"sku":"9781429914383","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429914383_p0.jpg?v=1763784345","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429914383","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}