Series: Misc
Genre: SF
Publisher: Forge
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: SF
Publisher: Forge
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: Award-winning sf writer Kress makes the transition to the scientifically based contemporary thriller with admirable success. Her effort opens with FBI agent Robert Kavanaugh thinking that the murders of a showgirl in Las Vegas and a scientist in Boston are connected. He quickly suspects that they are also connected to a Mafia-funded effort at DNA research, but in classic thriller fashion, he is unable to convince his superiors and must play a lone hand against a conspiracy in which the possibility of Mafia-developed biological weapons is only one element. The ensuing action is fast and furious, and the average reader will be sweating out Kavanaugh's quest for the better part of two hundred pages before an ending mercifully more happy than not. Kress is a master of characterization and every other skill needed to make hers a much-above-average thriller.
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