The Genesis Files - Softcover

Biderman, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575045639 ISBN 13: 9780575045637

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co, 1989

Synopsis

Joseph Radkin, investigative journalist, becomes embroiled in a horrifying story of scientific abuse which stretches from the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of San Francisco. "The Genesis Files" was selected by "The Guardian" as one of the top ten crime novels of 1988.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

A US debut novel (first published in 1988 in Britain) in which San Francisco freelance journalist Joseph Radkin begins to wonder: What were Malcolm Greene, the director of the People's Medical Center, and genetic-engineering scientist Krohl doing in the hospital lab at midnight just before it blew them and everything in it to kingdom come? The clues point to the Cherry Blossom restaurant, which unwittingly catered an outbreak of salmonella poisoning. Were the men studying that? Another reporter covering the story disappears; a morphine-hooked Vietnam vet spreads tales of Vietnamese women being abducted from the San Francisco streets; and Greene's sister Robin, an anti-military-establishment terrorist, had been skulking the hospital corridors just before the explosion. Radkin, assisted by pregnant wife Polly (she soon delivers twins), is horrified to discover that a Krohl virus, paid for by the Army and unleashed in Vietnam, caused birth anomalies and that the victims, Asians known as Montagnards, are systematically being removed--and experimented on, under the codeword genesis. Who blew the whistle and threw the bomb to stop it? Radkin and Polly, between baby feedings, uncover all in a dour, downbeat ending. Terrific, unsentimental parenting patter--in a needlessly complicated, overfamiliar medical-mystery plot. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0575045639
• ISBN 13: 9780575045637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256