Book description
So says a woman with an axe pressed to her neck, and the solution to
the entire mystery of human existence clutched between her palms. Two
weeks earlier, Kate Quinlan was just your average British expat with a
PhD, working in Silicon Valley as an artificial-intelligence designer
for ultra-violent video games, spending the evenings hanging out with
her pet chimp - and wondering how something as weird as human
consciousness could have evolved through mere Darwinian selection. But
when a disconcertingly attractive behavioural geneticist and a hotshot
cryptologist stroll into her life, she begins looking for answers in the
backwaters of the human genome - the 97% written off as ‘junk DNA’.
And when men in strange hats come looking for her hard drive, shooting
first and never really asking any questions, she finds herself on the
run - pursued by multiple squads of heavily-armed religious zealots, the
Feds, and worse. All seek to obtain, or to suppress forever, the key to
the revelatory stretch of DNA known as the Pandora Sequence. The outcome
of their race to control this explosive secret will forever alter how
humanity regards itself - that is, if anyone lives long enough to tell
the tale. Michael Stephen Fuchs lives in London and has degrees in
philosophy and economics from the University of Virginia.
