Book description
The year is 2008. Violent crime has become a global epidemic, nowhere
more so than in the United States. Everything from the death penalty
to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effective. Until now.
Project Conscience promises to be the solution. It is a bold attempt
by a powerful group of scientists, politicians and senior
law-enforcement personnel to use gene therapy to treat male criminals
and cure violent crime. But among their number are those with a more
sinister agenda, who would go further and turn the dream of Project
Conscience into the nightmare of Crime Zero.
Luke Decker, a criminal psychologist disillusioned with the growing
dependence on genetic science, is on the verge of resigning from the
FBI when a death-row killer's whispered revelation threatens
everything he believes in and catapults him into the heart of the
conspiracy. Decker's only ally is Dr Kathy Kerr, an old flame and
ideological adversary, and the geneticist behind the original Project Conscience.
Together they must put aside their differences to fight against a
scheme so ruthless in intent and so vast in scope that it will
irrevocably change the evolution of mankind itself.
Crime Zero is a terrifyingly credible thriller based on
technological developments that are already with us. At its core is
the story of one man's desperate fight for self-determination and free
will in a world where such qualities are in danger of imminent
extinction . . .
Michael Cordy worked for ten years in marketing before giving it all
up to write
The Miracle Strain
(now published as
The Messiah Code
), which has since sold in over twenty-five countries. He is also the
author of
The Lucifer Code
and
The Venus Conspiracy
. Michael Cordy lives in London with his wife, Jenny.
