With an assist from the Human Genome Project, Vikon Corporation, a bioengineering company on the island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean, has deciphered the key in our DNA to human aging - literally the cure for everything. Now operating beyond all US government and industry regulation, Vikon, headed by eugenicist Anthony Beecher, is about to transform a select group of humans into something altogether new - Homo Sapiens Immortalis. And no one can stop him.
High-tech journalist Kate Lipton wades into this high-stakes thicket unwittingly amid rumors of a group of AIDS sufferers who have disappeared after traveling to Grenada in search of a miracle cure. She soon learns Anthony Beecher will stop at nothing to derail her investigation and prevent her exposing Vikon's activities; for Beecher, the stakes are financially and philosophically stratospheric.
Anchored off Vikon's compound, Kate and partner Jack Sullivan discover Vikon's yacht, the Chimera, ferrying a stream of Fortune-500 types between the airport and Vikon's Grenadian lab. With Vikon security closing in and answers still elusive, she must finally resort to high-tech system hacking to uncover the truth.
If the key to human immortality is unravelled, can and should that genie be put back in its bottle? Who should receive the immortality treatment, and who should decide? DOUBLE HELIX grapples with thorny questions, issues of great relevance to twenty-first century humankind in the age of genetic discovery. For in truth, the key to our species immortality may well be at hand.

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Double Helix, A Novel:

This Novel was for an English class I took. Delivery was quick and book was in good condition. Keeping it on my shelf for the grandkids!
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Another intelligent high-tech thriller from Nancy Parker:

Double Helix was a fascinating view into gene research, sailing and computers, enveloped in a heart-stopping tale of suspense.
I had previously been fairly uninterested in any of these three topics, but had enjoyed her previous novel so much that I gave
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Double Helix is a marvelous combination of sci-reality and fiction; it gives you the thrill of "living" it as you read and pondering its implications for weeks to come. Grounded in the rapidly maturing science of genetics, with all its inherent ethical issues, the tale of human arrogance and greed that knows no limits is plausible. How "the good guys" combat that menace results in a gripping intellectual and action venture. Scrupulous research, scary details, a swift pace, twists and turns that grab you,... more info

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Double Helix is a wonderful combination of sci-reality and fiction; it gives you the thrill of "living" it as you read and pondering its implications for weeks to come. Grounded in the rapidly maturing science of genetics, with all its inherent ethical issues, the tale of human arrogance and greed that knows no limits is plausible. How "the good guys" combat that menace results in a gripping intellectual and action venture. Scrupulous research, scary details, a swift pace, twists and turns that grab you,... more info

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