Gargoyles

By Alan Nayes

Book Overview

With the recent completion of the human genome project, speculation on future genetic research has run wild. Alan Nayes has written an absorbing, and terrifying novel about what happens when human beings have the ability to save their own livesby changing the face of humanity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765300109
• ISBN13: 9780765300102
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Forge Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.3" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Hard to put down! Very suspenseful!

Although mysteries/thrillers are not my usual interest, I found this story by Alan Nayes really engrossing and hard to put down. Not too scary, perfect for all types of readers. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Ryan

Great Read!

Entertaining and thought provoking, the book challenged my convictions in a fast paced medical thriller. I couldn't quit reading it while fathoming all the implications of the plot.

mindboggling

Alan Nayes has written a truely entertaining book. It's a real page turner with non stop pulse bounding action and plot twists. It's been a long time since I found an author that has truely captured my attention. I would recommend this book to anyone that would like to read a real exciting page turner. A great summer read! Michelle

Gargoyles,Timely Book

Gargoyles, by Alan Nayes, his first book (two more on the way). I loved it! Good, short prologue, he grabs the reader's interest immediately. Sympathetic characters in desperate situations with real problems. Their stories grab you by the heart and you are on a runaway train. It's a fast, edge of the seat, heart in the mouth ride with a satisfying conclusion. This is about surrogate mothers, bioengineering, cloning and a greedy pharmaceutical corporation. Plenty of ambiance, the setting is southern California, south, through Mexico to Guatemala. You know what's so scary about all this? It is just too possible, it is no longer in the realm of science fiction! Think about it. Fish genes in tomatoes, human genes in both pigs and cattle. I clipped all that from the newspapers and saved it. Only God knows what else they are doing - with humans and cloning. Fiction writers have always led the pack when it comes to informing the public of something they need to become aware of, and Nayes has done a good job. Alan Nayes is a gifted new writer of medical thrillers. Like Robin Cook, he writes what he knows, and he, too, is in medicine. With Nayes' expertise in the field in which he writes, and his writing ability, Gargoyles should be a best seller the first time out.

Nearly impossible to put down

It's nearly impossible to put down author Alan Nayes' Gargoyles once begun: a too-realistic plot tells of a college woman seeking money to treat her terminally ill mother. The only way she can earn big bucks fast is by answering a clinic's ad to become a surrogate - but when she begins to suspect the nature of her unborn child, danger strikes. Intriguing ethical and moral questions continue in unexpected directions right up to the final, satisfyingly surprising, conclusion.