Change agent

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Daniel Suarez: Change agent (2017)

398 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-101-98466-6
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OCLC Number:
954224164

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-- and his transformation begins. In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution--preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance their technology. With the worlds of genetic crime and human trafficking converging, Durand and his fellow Interpol agents discover that one figure looms behind it all: Marcus Demang Wyckes, leader of a powerful and sophisticated cartel known as the Huli jing. But the Huli jing have identified Durand, too. After being forcibly dosed with a radical new change agent, Durand wakes from a coma weeks later to find he's been genetically transformed into someone else--his most wanted suspect: Wyckes. Now a fugitive, pursued through …

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5 stars

Change Agent is a thoroughly engaging thriller and a frightening glimpse of a possible future. It's hard to get the balance right, but Suarez did a fantastic job. Never preachy, Suarez nevertheless presents a plausible future where genetic editing may alter core principles of what it means to be human. The moral, ethical, and philosophical implications of genetic editing stay with you long after you've finished Change Agent – and will challenge your assumptions. I can't remember a book that terrified me more or entertained me as much as Change Agent did. Highly recommended.

Subjects

  • International Criminal Police Organization
  • Genetic engineering
  • Fiction