Immortality is
within reach.
In 2063, a
biotechnological revolution sweeps the nation. Behind this movement is
Chicago-based medical giant LyfeGen. The company leads the biotech industry
with their Sustain, an implantable artificial organ designed to grant its
recipients near-immortality. But many of those recipients are suddenly
dying.
Biomedical
scientist Preston Carter developed the Sustain to improve and save lives. Yet
there are others that would see him fail. Extreme religious groups, radical
movements, and competing corporations would prefer to see LyfeGen collapse
rather than allow “the god organ” to fundamentally alter medicine and the human
body. In a race against time, Carter must learn to trust resourceful journalist
Audrey Cook. She may hold the key to discovering who is sabotaging the Sustain.
And with the organ already implanted in his own body, Carter must uncover the truth
before he’s killed by his
invention.
THE GOD ORGAN
is a near-future medical thriller that takes the reader on a suspenseful ride
filled with sinister conspiracies, intriguing biomedical science, and rampant
corruption that will leave readers wondering just how dangerous becoming a god
may really be.
Exerpt:
For a while, Cody walked
aimlessly. He pushed through the crowds, taking pleasure in bumping into people
and disrupting their jovial moods. He smirked each time his shoulders connected
with them. He watched one man in his early twenties teeter over and fall into
another. They started to jostle each other with slurred expletives and shoves.
Cody watched for a moment as others joined the fray, physical lunges and
punches all resulting from the brief moment of contact Cody had had with the first
slobbering drunk.
He escaped past the clubs and
into the seedy streets where establishments like Percy’s Gentlemen’s Club and
Leather Horses made their home. Between the eager faces of boys barely old
enough to be considered men, there walked other, worn faces. Men who knew no
satisfaction in their lives outside of the brief moments that resulted after
transferring money through a simple touch on their comm card in exchange for a
private dance or an illicit kiss. Cody felt camaraderie with those men, the
hopeless and the lonely.
He continued on, though,
without enough money available through his comm card to purchase any services
from a live stripper. In fact, he no longer possessed enough money to make use
of the virtual holostrippers in the cruddy private viewing chambers on Racine
Avenue.
Despite his eagerness to leave
Chicago, he had no discernible means to accomplish that feat. Tomorrow, he
hoped, that might all change. But he had learned not to count on anything as
ephemeral as hope and optimism.
Anthony J Melchiorri is a writer and biomedical
engineer living in Maryland. He spends most of his time developing cardiovascular
devices for tissue engineering to treat children with congenital heart defects
when he isn't writing or reading.
I thought that the book was an amazingly unique read. I am really happy that I was able to particiapte in the tour. Anthony gives us a fresh look at the future of science. Written about the futuristic medical and research forums, we are introduced to a phenomenal medical breakthrough. The Sustain or "god organ" is a device surgically inserted into the human body that guarantees longer life span and slows down signs of aging and keeps all your other organs healthy. But someone is trying to sabotage the project by killing off the CEO who had the device. Could it be someone on the inside or someone who is jealous because they can't afford the device themselves?
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