No Time To Die
Kira Piekoff
Pinnacle, Aug 26 2014, $9.99
ISBN: 9780786034895
Though Zoe Kincaid is a twenty years old college
student, her ultra-petit body looks like that of a young teenager; some would say
a male tweener. While her parents insist
she accept her condition and stop obsessing over it, Zoe urged by her Gramps
turns to Manhattan medical geneticist Dr. Ray Carlisle who explains her unnamed
condition; her entire body even her teeth stopped aging at fourteen.
Zoe sadly agrees to allow research scientists to
conduct tests on her in order to learn how her DNA shut down the aging process. However, opponents want the “amoral” studies
stopped and will do anything to end it.
At Panax Pharmaceuticals in DC, someone releases test chimps that kill
Dr. Eliot Shipley in his lab. Columbia
University biochemist Dr. Helen McNair vanishes. Meanwhile in DC Justice Department Bioethics
Committee Agent Les Mahler notices the trend of 27 unresolved vanishings except
for the Shipley corpse. Now Zoe
disappears.
No Time To Die is a mesmerizing medical
suspense as Kira Piekoff deftly balances a timely deep look at the ethics of genetic
research; this case involves using a human guinea pig for the well-being of others
inside of an action-packed twisting biological thriller. With a solid cast, readers care about what
happens to Zoe.
Harriet Klausner
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