Ancestor: A Novel

Ancestor: A Novel

<i>“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.”<br></i><br>From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—<i>New York Times </i>bestselling creator of <i>Infected </i>and <i>Contagious</i>—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true. <br> <br>Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney.  Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology.<br> <br>On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection.<br> <br>There's just one problem: these <i>ancestors </i>are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, Colding’s work has given birth to something big, something <i>evil</i>. <br> <br>With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda.  <br> <br>As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-ride—and offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>