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Invasive Proceedures | 
 enlarge | Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0765352826
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780765352828
ASIN: 0765352826
Publication Date: July 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Awesome tale! August 8, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
George Galen is a brilliant (but insane) geneticist, black-listed for unethical and illegal genetic tampering. He has created a method to alter human DNA to heal diseases, but uses it to also "improve" those who receives his treatment. Galen makes his patients stronger, faster, able to heal quickly, and compliant to his will.
Dr. Monica Owens is one of the best thoracic surgeons in her field. Needing Monica to make his plans work, Galen has Wyatt, her six-year-old son, kidnapped. To keep Wyatt from harm, Monica must accompany Galen and his goons to an abandoned and forgotten nursing home. It is there that Galen has set up an impressive genetic lab, along with some unwilling test patients. Hating herself for what she is forced to do, Monica begins altering the DNA of the prisoners.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hartman is a brilliant (and sane) virologist. Working for the government's biohazard agency (BHA), he has discovered how to neutralize Galen's DNA-changing virus, V16. Needless-to-say, Galen is not happy.
***** This began as a short story titled MALPRACTICE which was published in a sci-fi magazine around 1977. After years of emails to each other, Card and Johnston expanded the tale to novel size.
Although this is a combination of sci-fi and medical thriller, with a little government military thrown in, it is labeled as simply fiction. If you expect to find a fantasy or sci-fi story in the lines of ENDER'S GAME, then you are going to be disappointed. This book proves that author Orson Scott Card has the rare ability to cross genres with his writing. So begin reading with an open mind and be prepared to be blown away! *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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