Seizure by Robin Cook


Authors
ISBN
9780333902837
Published
Released
01 / 03 / 2004
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Dimensions
153 x 234 x 34mm

What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have in common? Politics, religion, and bioscience collide in the latest medical thriller from the master in the field.

Senator 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 sub-committee 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, 'Seizure' is a cautionary tale for a time where biotechnology pulls us into a promising yet frightening new world.
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