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Years after armed men loot the city zoo in Baghdad, Lorna Polk, a Louisiana state veterinarian, discovers strangely deformed animals with a heightened intelligence in the cargo of a shipwrecked fishing trawler and must track down the one that got free, but she will need help from a man from her past, U.S. Border Patrol agent Jack Menard.
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"Though the fighting has stopped and Hitler is vanquished, a dangerous new war between America and the Soviet Union has begun. Invaluable in defeating the Nazis, accidental crypto-zoologist R. J. MacCready and Yanni Thorne, an indigenous Brazilian and expert in animal behavior, are working for the Pentagon once again. Sent to a mysterious Greek island in a remote corner of the Mediterranean, they are investigating rumors about a volcanic spring with...
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A River Divided follows Evelyn, a geneticist and amateur archeologist, who discovers a tomb while vacationing in Israel. Believing she has found the remains of Christ, she attempts to revive the DNA found preserved at the site so that she can clone Him. But with human cloning being both illegal and unprecedented, she takes the risk of carrying the embryo herself. Though more a scientist than a zealot, she wants to do everything to bring Him back to...
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When they come across a mummified body in a forgotten Kansas ghost town, the discovery transforms Carter into something his talking dog, Fred, can no longer trust: a younger, healthier, physically fit specimen of humanity that to Fred just doesn't smell right anymore. As Carter spends his days in a secret government installation being poked and prodded by scientists, Fred enlists the aid of their cat-loving friend, Julie, to figure out what happened....
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Michael Crichton meets Dan Brown in this novel of the real secret code hidden in human DNA.
Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Joshua Ambergris has made an astounding discovery that will shake the foundations of science: He has discovered a coded text hidden in human DNA. Before Ambergris can change the course of history by announcing his incredible discovery, he is brutally murdered in his office at Triad Genomics, an international biotech company....
6) Reflections
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A humble youth. A paranormal gift. A haunting history. In 1974, Shane Sullivan is a quiet, gangly teen in the suburbs of Boston who discovers he can explore the ancestral memories of a person's lineage. Confused and frightened, his pursuit of this supernatural ability takes him down a dark and unexpected road of history long forgotten -or rewritten by historians.
With the aid of his two friends, Jimmer and Paige, he contemplates a more ruthless version...
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Le professeur Persikov est un éminent spécialiste des grenouilles et autres batraciens auxquels il voue un amour tel
que sa femme l'a quitté, sans que cela ne l'affecte autant que les ravages occasionnés dans les rangs de ses amphibiens par les années de guerre civile et de famine après la révolution de 1917. Un beau jour de 1928, il découvre par hasard que sous l'action d'un rayon rouge émis par son vieux microscope, des amibes se sont...
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