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Limited Time - Hardcover

Greer, Robert

 
9780892966844: Limited Time
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 089296684X ISBN 13: 9780892966844
Verlag: Mysterious Press, 2000

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The author of the CJ Floyd novels has won over readers and critics with the adventures of one of the most compelling and colorfully drawn private-eye heroes in years. Now in the best tradition of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton, Robert Greer-a nationally prominent physician and research scientist-turns to the world he knows best with stunning results... LIMITED TIME. For centuries it has been the holy grail of medical science, in pursuit of which the human race has violated nature, launched explorations, and waged war. Now one rogue doctor has dared to unlock the power of one of the most potent substances ever swirled inside a test tube-and stands on the verge of cracking the code of nothing less than the legendary fountain of youth.

A world-class collegiate swimmer breaks a record at the women's U.S. Olympic trials, then seconds later succumbs to a sudden, violent seizure. A brilliant, maverick molecular biologist stumbles onto a drug that can both enhance athletic performance and accelerate the average lifespan past every imaginable barrier, until death cuts his experiment brutally short. There is a hidden but devastatingly real link between the two tragedies. Few see the connection, until the expanding and shocking web of fatalities draws in research pathologist Dr. Henry Bales.

Bales, dedicated to answering questions inside the safe confines of a lab, now tackles a mystery in the dangerous, unscientific world of unchecked greed and power. To assist him he enlists several allies, including a rival scientist of exotic good looks and penetrating mind, and a certain local bounty hunter who brings a welcome battery of battle-tested street smarts to the rarefied realm of high thinkers and earthshakers. Together they must penetrate a conspiracy that stretches from the high, open training fields of Denver to the cramped, darkened gyms of Cuba. Hurtling toward a deadly climax in a desperate race against time, Bales, a supreme man of reason, knows that none of them may make it to the finish line.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ROBERT GREER is a novelist, rancher, research scientist, and professor of pathology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. His CJ Floyd novels are The Devil's Hatband, The Devil's Red Nickel, and The Devil's Backbone.

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Greer, a surgical pathologist and professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, has written his fourth mystery novel, this one set in the arena of biomedical research. CJ Floyd, an intriguing African American bail bondsman and private investigator who is the protagonist of Greer's first three works, plays a significant character here. The novel's "biotech" theme concerns telomerase, an enzyme that may control the human aging process, and, in this story, gives athletes a supreme boost of energy. The action begins when an Olympic-level swimmer suffers a seizure after a race and dies. Then a controversial telomerase researcher dies suddenly. Research pathologist Henry Bales conceives of a possible link between these two tragic deaths, and, along with Floyd and others, attempts to get to the bottom of an international conspiracy. Many of the book's characters are quirky, and its storyline is rich in detail and full of tension. A riveting medical mystery; appropriate for public libraries.ALinda M.G. Katz, MCP Hahnemann Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The author of the acclaimed CJ Floyd mystery series (featuring an African-American bail bondsman and bounty hunter) takes a new direction with this shrewd and suspenseful medical thriller, in which both promising young athletes and celebrated medical researchers are mysteriously stricken. What connects the sudden illness of a Cuban boxer and the suspicion that a prominent Denver physician has been faking the results of his research experiments? What are the strange growths in the brain of a swimmer who dies while competing in an Olympic qualifying heat? Murder and malfeasance are afoot, apparently, in a university research laboratory, and pathologist-rancher Dr. Henry Bales needs to find the link before more deaths occur. CJ Floyd appears as a minor character in this novel, and fans of the series may miss his bracing presence. But Bales is an old friend of CJ's from their Vietnam days, and he is an appealing character in his own right (like the author, Bales is a pathologist at the University of Colorado). Greer ties up the threads of his subplots adroitly, and he is especially good at depicting the everyday life of a research lab and the ever-present tension there between applied and pure science. Agent, Nat Sobel. 6-city author tour. (Jan.) FYI: In 1998, Greer won the Chester Himes Award for his CJ Floyd mysteries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A world-class swimmer breaks a record, then dies gruesomely. Soon thereafter, a world-class medical researcher meets an equally gothic end, postmortem results linking the two deaths in a shocking though fascinating way. Fascinating, that is, if you're Dr. Tess Gilliam and know your stuff about telomerase, the enzyme found in both corpses in suspicious quantities. Obvious overdosing, but who did it and why? Were the deaths the result of irresponsible and illegal experimentation by ambitious scientists in a heedless race for glittering prizes? Or is there a more mundane kind of greed involved? Telomerase, after all, is the so-called ``fountain of youth'' drug, and it doesn't take a Nobel laureate to know that billions might be involved if it can ever be brought to market. When steadfast Tess joins the growing list of telomerase-related fatalities, her friend and colleague Dr. Henry Bales becomes enragedin a way he hasn't been since he soldiered in Vietnam. Tess's killer has to pay, he tells C.J. Floyd, his former comrade in arms. Enlisting the aid of Dr. Sandi Artorio, as leggy and luscious as she is telomerase-fluent, the allies dig in, sift clues, and finally identify the master criminal dragged in from left field. Too bad C.J., the black bail-bondsman hero of Greer's three previous novels (The Devil's Backbone, 1997, etc.), is only peripheral here. Confronting bigotry on Denver's mean streets with toughness and panache, C.J. is a fully realized character. Among white-bread scientists, he seems colorless, pointless, and as lifeless as the rest. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Verlag
Mysterious Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
089296684X
ISBN 13 
9780892966844
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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