{"product_id":"the-genesis-strain-philip-stengel-9798282311297","title":"The Genesis Strain","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeep beneath HelixCore, the future of medicine is being built out of secrecy, ambition, and bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Genesis Strain is a revolutionary biotech compound designed to reverse catastrophic cellular damage, repair failing organs, and restore dying tissue. In the first seconds after injection, it works. Then it keeps going. Flesh mutates. Bone rewrites itself. Instinct replaces identity. Every breakthrough becomes a monster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Sienna Cade knows exactly what HelixCore has created because she helped build it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow living beneath the slums of New Helix in a hidden black-market lab, Sienna is trying to solve the one problem no one inside the corporation could stop: how to make the Strain heal without transforming its subjects into something inhuman. But when HelixCore finally finds her, she is forced to flee the city with the last viable samples and the evidence that Viktor Drayce, the company's ruthless architect, is preparing something far worse than another round of secret trials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the city walls lie the Bone Wastes, a landscape poisoned by HelixCore's failed experiments and haunted by the mutated aftermath of everything the company chose to bury. There Sienna joins forces with Kael Voss, a smuggler with old ties to HelixCore, and Mira Tan, a resistance leader who has spent years gathering proof of the corporation's crimes. Together they uncover the scale of Drayce's plan: the Genesis Strain is not being abandoned. It is being prepared for mass deployment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs New Helix moves toward engineered catastrophe, Sienna must decide whether the Strain can still be saved as a cure or whether the only moral answer left is to destroy the thing she once believed would change the world for the better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Genesis Strain is a dark science fiction thriller about genetic engineering, corporate biopower, mutant wastelands, resistance warfare, and the nightmare that begins when a miracle treatment learns how to survive without humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Stengel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798282311297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Philip Stengel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49166668431615,"sku":"9798282311297","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-genesis-strain-philip-stengel-9798282311297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}