This Mortal Coil

ISBN: 1481496336

Author: Suvada, Emily

Condition: New

Redefines unputdownable. -Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of IlluminaeI was thrilled. I was shocked. -NPRStunning twists and turns. -BCCB (starred review)In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late fathers message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but thats not what makes her special. In Cats world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius.Thats no surprise, since Cats father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own.When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cats instincts tell her its just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cats help to release it and save the human race.Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?