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Midnight Genes: A Thriller
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 12 2025
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She escaped the lab with a power no one can control.
Now a child has become the key to a weapon aimed at America.
Anya was never supposed to leave Novocell alive. After forty-three days of invasive testing, her body has learned to pull metal, bend circuitry, and redirect electrical current. Every use comes at a price: her heart is failing. Novocell wants her back, not to save her, but because she's the only human who can make its next experiment work.
When investigative journalist John Reece discovers that his sister's death was assigned a subject number and buried inside a falsified gene-therapy trial, he follows a trail of altered medical records, murdered witnesses, and a ledger someone is willing to kill to recover.
His search leads to Detective Mark Talbot, former scientist Elena Ramirez, and Claire Thompson, whose eight-year-old son Aidan has just suffered the same impossible expression Novocell was hiding.
Aidan isn't another patient. He's the second half of a calibration system.
At a classified Maryland air base, forty-eight drones are being prepared to release an aerosol carrier over carefully selected population centers. The people beneath those flight paths weren't chosen at random. Their genetic data has already identified them as test subjects.
Some will become sick. Some may die. A few may awaken with abilities no one understands.
Now Anya, John, Elena, Mark, and Claire must cross a country under surveillance, keep two children alive, expose the truth, and reach the launch site before Novocell turns an entire population into an uncontrolled human experiment.
The drones can lift off without the children.
They can't open their payloads without them.
Midnight Genes is a science-horror thriller about genetic power, medical betrayal, human experimentation, and the terrifying moment when a cure becomes a weapon.
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