A Conspiracy of Genes
About this audiobook
He knows the secret, she knows the truth…
“The list. You’re on the list. God’s chosen Gene.”
When children’s hospital volunteer and high school student Gene Adamson hears the words of the dying man, the gunman who used him as a shield after murdering a prominent geneticist, Gene thinks the man delirious. But then the bodies of killer and victim disappear from the morgue, and a ten-year-old girl desperately needing a heart transplant is mysteriously bumped from her number-one spot on the organ-recipient list. The list. What is the list? Gene, together with Jeanne Everston, the beautiful daughter of the murdered geneticist, appears to have stumbled onto a medical conspiracy so deadly the very knowledge of its existence marks them for death.
As a child’s life hangs in the balance, Gene believes he’s discovered the answer. He thinks he’s cracked the conspiracy wide open. He is so wrong.
About the author
Mark de Castrique is an author who grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina, where many of his novels are set. He's a veteran of the television- and film-production industry, has served as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte teaching The American Mystery, and is a frequent speaker and workshop leader. He and his wife live in Charlotte.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
