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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100399148760
ISBN-139780399148767
eBay Product ID (ePID)2211623
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeizure
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / General, Thrillers / Suspense, General, Medical
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorRobin Cook
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight27.6 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-043225
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisSenator Ashley Butler is a quintessential Southern demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called to chair a subcommittee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views his political future in bold relief; and Dr. Daniel Lowell, inventor of the technique that will take stem cell research to the next level, sees a roadblock positioned before his biotech startup. The two seemingly opposite personalities clash during the senate hearings, but the men have a common desire. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his concern for the unborn; and Lowell's pursuit of gargantuan personal wealth and celebrity overrides any considerations for patients' well-being. Further complicating the proceedings is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed Parkinson's disease-leading the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. In a perilous attempt to prematurely harness Lowell's new technology, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy-seizures of the most bizarre order. Torn from the headlines, Seizureis a cautionary tale for a time where biotechnology pulls us into a promising yet frightening new world.