A half-century after the dawn of the atomic age, the Freedom of Information Act forces the United States government to release the actual records of the Congressional Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. FLASHBLIND exposes the truth behind the final Manhattan Project secret that would change the world forever. Jake Holden, a leading-edge geneticist, returns to the Los Alamos Human Genome Project when his brother, who has Xeroderma Pigmentosa, a rare genetic DNA disorder, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His only hope is to sequence and repair the gene in the Los Alamos...

Six years into the worst drought in history, fresh oranges go for $10 each, and food is scarce. Just when Californians think things can't get worse, their last lifeline, the California Aqueduct, is held hostage, creating more havoc than a Richter 7. Scott Acosta, a plant biologist and the son of a Mexican farm worker, spends twenty hours a day in the most advanced greenhouse in America. Scott, who is deaf and hears with a cochlear implant, has bioengineered a miracle plant that can save California from starvation. He has reversed photosynthesis. That's right. His plants produce water. Brenton...