Kira Miller’s life has been one of extremes - high school
prodigy, track star, graduated at 15. Other extreme – 2 dead parents, 1 dead
brother. Post high school? Enrolled at Stanford and went straight through to
her PhD in neuromolecular biology. Now employed at a San Diego biotech company.
On the fast track to greatness until the owner is found dead, then a PI is
found dead.
David Desh is an emotionally wounded Iraqi vet who, before a
massacre, was one of the top Delta operatives. Now he oversees a security firm.
The army pulls him back asking him to look into this brilliant, but potentially
sociopathic, woman. Word is she is in contact with Islamic terrorist to release
a biological virus that could decimate the planet.
Desh has to track someone who may not have classic
tradecraft, but certainly can outthink any adversary she faces. Once Desh
catches up with Kira (more accurately, the reverse), Kira starts to reveal what
she is really doing. She has figured out two things: first, she has the formula
that temporally increase intelligence by, at the least, double. She has also
figured out the genetics behind longevity, being able to increase the life
span, also be double.
Now Desh doesn’t buy this completely, but slowly comes around
to believe her when he see the effectiveness of her intellectual ‘enhancements”
first hand. Too many people are after her, but just who is the problem.
Islamists? Some megalomaniac? Our own government? And most importantly, what
would anyone do with what she’s developed?
This was a book to kill time. A free download based on a
BookBub.com offer; something to read while I waited for a more promising book to
rise to the top of my request queue at the city library. It was OK. Nothing to
shout about. Not an entire waste of time. Guess I got what I paid for.
East Coast Don
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