Genetic Imperfections

ISBN: 1938135075

Author: Hadden, Steve

Condition: New

It was about the money...now it's about the cure.Dang! What an intense read! The characters are full and vibrant, despite the darkness within. Fast-paced and full of action!-Patty D Vine VoiceA bitter CEO who lost his only child to leukemia risks everything to save a ten-year-old's life with the first genetic cure for cancer in this action-packed thriller from the author of The Sunset Conspiracy.Twenty years ago, David Wellington helplessly watched as a genetic imperfection took his young sons life. On that day, his heart hardened, and he promised hed never care for another person again. Determined to fill the hole in his heart with money, he married the founders adulterous daughter and embarked on a life of greed and self-indulgence.Now, at forty-five, he prepares to get the payoff for selling his soul when he takes Rexsen Labs public. Propelled by the pending FDA approval of CGT, the first genetic cure for cancer, hes on the verge of becoming Newport Beachs newest billionaire.But his dream suddenly becomes a nightmare when his plane crashes into the Pacific and he faces the ultimate consequence for the selfish life hes led. Miraculously, he survives and is forced to battle Wall Streets next cover boy and the company he helped build to unravel CGTs deadly secret. A ten-year-old girls life hangs in the balance, and he risks everything to find the reason behind his second chance at life and his only chance for love.Genetic Imperfections is a story about how the fundamental goodness in one man can be buried by tragedy and replaced with bitterness and greed-and how the path to redemption reveals itself in mysterious ways.According to the National Institute of Health, there are hundreds of clinical trials for cancer using gene therapy underway in the US...there are none underway to treat greed.