In a near future world in which genetic therapy holds both great promise and deadly dangers, Frank Hartman, a brilliant virologist working for the government's top-secret biohazard agency, is the only man capable of stopping George Galen, a pioneering geneticist who has come up with a way to "improve" humans by making them stronger, healthier, and compliant to his will. Reprint.
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the mining ship El Cavador spots an object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.