The Sum of Her Parts

ISBN-13: 9780345512024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Alan Dean Foster

Opis

In this thrilling science fiction adventure the triumphant conclusion to the Tipping Point trilogy New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to a near future in which genetic manipulation and extreme body modification have changed profoundly what it means to be human.

Dr. Ingrid Seastrom was once a respected American physician. Whispr, whose body has been transformed to preternatural thinness, was once a streetwise thief. Now, in a world on the edge of catastrophe from centuries of environmental exploitation, they are allies thrust together by fate to unravel an impossible mystery even as they are stalked by a relentless killer.
Ingrid and Whispr are hunted fugitives bound together by a thread: a data-storage thread made of a material that cannot exist, yet somehow does. Their quest to learn its secrets and, in Whispr s case, sell them to the highest bidder has brought them to South Africa s treacherous Namib desert. Beyond its dangers waits a heavily guarded research facility that promises answers, if they can survive long enough to get there. But that won t be easy, not with Napun Mole on their trail. They ve already escaped the assassin twice, and as far as Mole is concerned, finishing them off isn t just a job anymore . . . it s personal."