{"product_id":"slatewiper-book-lewis-perdue-9780765333032","title":"Slatewiper","description":"\u003cp\u003e* FACT: Our chromosomes contain billions of so-called junk DNA sequences. Some of them are the intact genetic blueprints of ancient gene-altering pathogens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* FACT: Bioweapons designers are developing deadly, genetically engineered, killer life-forms that are triggered by race-and ethnic-related genes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* FACT: DNA analysis shows that the human race has come extremely close to extinction in the past. One cause of this could have been a slatewiper-a lethal pestilence that nearly wiped the human slate clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* FACT: By the end of World War I, Japan's biowarfare arsenal was the most advanced in the world thanks to its inhumane medical experiments that equaled those of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe time has come for . . . \u003ci\u003eSlatewiper\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLara Blackwood, genetic engineering entrepreneur and presidential advisor, receives a call from an old college friend who asks her help in solving a ghastly epidemic in Tokyo. She agrees to help and, with a single phone call, sets in motion a chain of death and mayhem stretching from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., Amsterdam, and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo her horror, she discovers her life's work has been perverted to produce a revolutionary new genetic weapon that kills by turning people's own chromosomes against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Lara must risk assassination to expose the conspiracy behind Slatewiper-before a nightmarish terrorist scheme threatens the entire human race with extinction \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51498531324177,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51498531356945,"sku":"GOR014304443","price":3.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0765333031.jpg?v=1786120046","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/slatewiper-book-lewis-perdue-9780765333032","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}