She's a hurricane. He's a pariah. The world is in their hands. "THE LIFE ENGINE is a tremendous debut novel. The twists and turns were riveting... (I) couldn't put it down. Rick Baker is a hot new talent in the publishing world." - (Stephen Frey, New York Times Best Selling Author) Ian Wolfe is a man disgraced. The former Olympic decathlete went from cereal boxes to tabloids after a doping scandal, and he hopes a second career as a CIA officer can get him back in America's good graces. April Gentry is a woman on a mission. She's a world-renowned ethnobotanist, and she's made it her calling to...