{"product_id":"junk-generation-richard-vokey-9780981046808","title":"Junk Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003eGritty. Action-packed. Prophetic?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stunning thriller perfectly suited to an election year and a time of traumatic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as E=mc2 led inevitably to the Nuclear Age, runaway science, national rivalries, greed, and recklessness will drive humankind over the genetic cliff. Governments, corporations, scientists, bioterrorists, fanatics and madmen will tinker with human DNA to build \"better\" people and change human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result will be \u003ci\u003eR\u003c\/i\u003eevolution and the first Junk Generation--not to mention page one of Volume Two of the History of the Human Race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe time is May 2001 and the setting a world where 9\/11 does not happen but something far worse soon will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Washington, President John Mason faces almost certain impeachment for misappropriating billions he claims were used to ensure \"America's survival.\" Few believe him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn New York City, the Kitchen Sink Killer is littering the five boroughs with corpses done in with kitchen utensils and home reno tools. The murderer is also leaving behind a bizarre series of puzzling good deeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe debate over genetic breakthroughs has grown nasty too. Anti-Frankenfoods activist Wally Anderson breaks into the headquaters computer system of GreenGene Inc. in Manhattan. It is the Microsoft of the biotech industry, led by Dr. Sigurd Shivkovski, the aged Old Worldly pitchman for all that is wonderful about \"safe, responsible\" genetic science. Wally sees only a tip of a very big iceberg but his attempt to blow the lid off some strange mouse and monkey business may cost him his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen mild-mannered banker Matthew Agneau is knifed to death in Times Square while attempting to stop a mugger, Shivkovski's bad boy geneticist son Leon is looking on--seems that one of his DNA experiments has gone terribly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Daluskov, a star assistant DA with Harvard smarts and a Fight Club attitude, catches the break-in and the mugging cases. As a child, Tom watched his immigrant geneticist father, Shivkovski's partner, commit suicide. He's turned his back on vast biotech wealth but not on the friendships of the brilliant but eccentric \"lab rat\" immigrant scientists' kids community he grew up in. Tom has a grudge and a mean streak and enjoys smacking down scientific arrogance. But science is about to transform Tom's life-and Life as we all now know it. Everywhere. Forever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Richard Vokey takes the reader on a riveting ride to an astonishing ending and shows how \u003ci\u003eR\u003c\/i\u003eevolution could be coming to your neighborhood soon--or may already have arrived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Vokey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0981046800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780981046808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Minds Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.92d","brand":"Richard Vokey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435755254015,"sku":"9780981046808","price":18.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84f13823-5b16-4c6f-9733-73fe5dbc1b8e.jpg?v=1777152500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/junk-generation-richard-vokey-9780981046808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}