Lab Notes: a novel

By Gerrie Nelson

A NovelOn a perilous journey toward revenge and self discovery, Professor Diane Rose combines her husband's lab notes, her rational scientific thinking and the mysticism of the Kogi, a five-thousand-year-old South American mountain tribe, to answer the question: "Why are scientists and their technologies disappearing?"Aggressively recruited by BRI, a Houston research group, Diane Rose and her husband (and research partner) Vincent Rose succumb to the lure of commercial biotechnology, leaving their university posts and moving southwest to Texas. Mind-boggling salaries and unlimited funding promise a bright future in research-for-profit. But BRI's employee handbook does not disclose its true corporate mission. Nor does it spell out the company's retirement plan-scientists and their inventions simply disappear. Vincent Rose sees hints of darkness in their new workplace and records his suspicions as if they are scientific data. Diane, relishing her newfound success in biotechnology, turns a blind eye to BRI's minefield of staffers: an animal rights extremist with destructive tendencies, a disgraced scientist with ulterior motives, a shadow employee with dangerous secrets to protect and a sadist who releases tension through animal torture. When Vincent vanishes during an offshore yacht race, Diane studies his notes and suspects foul play. Distraught but determined to uncover the truth, she trades her microscope for binoculars and master keys-unaware she's being watched. Her quest (fraught with escapes and evasions) follows a trail of ill-fated lovers, secret societies, greed and murder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466467487
• ISBN13: 9781466467484
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"