Mutant

by Peter Clement

Book Overview

Former ER doctor Peter Clement blends electrifying human drama with the suspense of top-notch medical thrillers. Now, in an all-too-plausible story that could have been torn from today's headlines,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345443373
• ISBN13: 9780345443373
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Compelling thriller!

A smart, compelling thriller. I really enjoyed it. Keep them coming, Dr. Clement.Brad - Canada

Packed with suspense

Peter Clement's Mutant is a medical thriller that is packed with suspense: an activist warning of new DNA strains and environmental problems investigates a powerful company's genetic breakthroughs, and individuals leading disparate lives are drawn together in the survey of genetically modified foods and dangers from bioengineering. An absorbing and highly recommended thriller.

Whistle-blowing Can Be Fatal!

Ray Bradbury once defined Science Fiction as "a logical extension of reality". In his spell-binding, stand-alone thriller MUTANT, best-selling physician-author Dr. Peter Clement relentlessly takes his readers one horrifyingly-logical step beyond today's scientic realities of laboratory-controlled genetic manipulation into an absolutely plausible and terrifyingly probable consideration of their what-if's should amoral men deliberately set out to unleash cross-specie genetic mutations for purposes of mass destruction. His heroine, Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, a brilliant research geneticist, has become increasingly alarmed by the lack of environmental curbs imposed on multi-billion-dollar corporate enterprises which utilize unmonitored genetic alteration techniques on plants for commercial purposes. Her fears crystalize shortly after the sudden, horrible death of a child in Hawaii has been attributed to a deadly strain of "bird flu", a disease which has somehow passed from its chicken carrier to a human host. After she's almost killed while trying to uncover hard evidence to prove that genetically-tainted feed (which may have originated at Agrenomics International, one of her targeted corporations)was the lethal link, she shares her fears and suspicions with Dr. Richard Steele, a burned-out ER doctor...in recovery from a heart attack brought on by overwork and personal stress...during a chance encounter at a convention and piques both his professional and personal interest. Once he becomes convinced that her fears are entirely justified, they join forces only to discover that whistle-blowing can be deadly business as the appalling, utterly damning evidence begins to emerge from a tangled web of false leads and corporate misdirection. Caught up in what soon proves to be an international terrorist conspiracy, they ultimately find themselves in a race against time to stop the implementation of a doomsday scenario aimed at the heart and heartlands of North America. The cliff-hanger uncertainties of the will-they-won't-they ramifications of its final pages make this brilliant novel's unforgetable denouement a genuine milestone in the genre.MUTANT quite literally leaps from today's headlines into the heart and mind of its reader. One of Dr. Clement's rare talents as a writer is his ability to make highly technical material completely understandable in lay terms without sacrificing any of the elements of superb storytelling. His characters are solidly-realized and intensely real; he has a positive genius for pushing his plot action to its utmost limits without ever violating our sense of cedibility, and I find it impossible to believe that anyone can come away from this literary experience entirely unshaken or unmoved by his shattering vision of an all-too-possible, near-future America.

Possibility????

What can I say. This book starts off with every Mother's nightmare, a sick child, as you turn each page the child is getting worse, although the mother is a doctor she's a mother first and can only think of getting her son to the hospital, which is many miles away.As you continue turning the pages you start to wonder if this could really happen! With all the new technology these days, this could happen, and I think that's the most terrifying thought that you'll have as you read this book. Wonderful! Not too technical, great detail, easy to follow, lots of suspense and a great read!Drs. Steele and Sullivan make a good team, I'm hoping Mr. Clement will write more books with these two characters.

Excellent medical thriller

Agrenomics is a bioengineering company that is developing, testing, and planning to implement a genetic weapon of mass destruction. They are performing their work on behalf of a client who wants to bring America to its knees. The firm is spraying a genetic vector all over the Midwest so that a deadly disease limited to the animal population will invade the human race.Dr. Kathleen Sullivan believes that scientific experts should police the bioengineering companies to insure they are adhering to what they claim they say they are doing. At a conference, she meets Dr. Richard Steele, an ER doctor who is very concerned with hazards ignored by the bioengineering crowd. When they return to New York, someone targets both of them for death. Still the intrepid duo risk their lives to expose wrongdoings that could impact future generations if not stopped.It is quite frightening to realize that humanity has reached the ability to eradicate the species without dropping one nuclear bomb. However, what makes this tale even scarier is that it feels plausible for brilliant scientists to willingly eradicate part of the populace in a sort of wisdom without compassion manner. Through his highly technical explanations are beyond the ken of the average layperson, Peter Clement concludes with his medical thriller MUTANT that science fiction is very close to science fact.Harriet Klausner