Pandemic Audiobook (Free)

NY Times-bestselling author Robin Cook assumes the cutting-edge world of gene-modification within this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.

When an unidentified, apparently healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon achieving the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth wedding anniversary from the nightmarish contagion, Jack autopsies the woman within about Pandemic hours of her demise and discovers some striking anomalies: 1st, that she’s had a heart transplant, and second, that, against all chances, her DNA fits that of the transplanted center.

Although the reality don’t soon add up to influenza, Jack must race against the clock to identify the woman and determine what kind of virus could wreak such havoc–a task produced more urgent when two other victims succumb to an identical rapid death. But nothing is practical until his investigation leads him into the exciting realm of CRISPR/CAS9, a gene-editing biotechnology that’s captured the creativity from the medical community . and the attention of its most unethical associates. Drawn into the dark underbelly from the organ transplant marketplace, Jack should come face-to-face with a megalomaniacal businessman ready to risk human lives to be able to overcome a lucrative brand-new frontier in medicine–and if Jack’s not really careful, the next life lost may be his own.