Underlying Crimes

ISBN: 1480068020

Author: Mead, Joann

Condition: New

Underlying Crimes is set in a tiny New England state known for its culture of corruption. The story unfolds connecting the corporate upperworld of Allbio biotechnology to the criminal underworld of corrupt politicians and crooked cops. Jo Blair, a biotech manager, is caught in an intricate web of criminality as she is arrested, brutally beaten by police and targeted for murder. She doesn't know what it is that she knows. Not until the children in the community fall deathly ill from a common bacteria that has somehow morphed into a virulent, lethal superbug. A young girl writhes in agony as she spews out curses and epithets. Her death is the harbinger of what is to come, an outbreak of lethal diseases in school children. Jo questions why. Did the dumping of Allbio's bioengineered genes into the neighborhood sewers make the children ill and destroy their immunity? Was it bioterror or bioerror when the children sickened and died? Or will Jo's knowledge be silenced and disappear, as fleeting as the foreign gene, the weapon of immune destruction? The answer is hidden in the DNA.