The year is 2008. Violent crime has become a global epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States. Everything from the death penalty to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effective. Until now.

Project Conscience promises to be the solution. It is a bold attempt by a powerful group of scientists, politicians & senior law-enforcement personnel to use gene therapy to treat male criminals & cure violent crime. But among their number are those with a more sinister agenda, who would go further & turn the dream of Project Conscience into the nightmare of Crime Zero.

Luke Decker, a criminal psychologist disillusioned with the growing dependence on genetic science, is on the verge of resigning from the FBI when a death-row killer's whispered revelation threatens everything he believes in & catapults him into the heart of the conspiracy. Decker's only ally is Dr Kathy Kerr, an old flame & ideological adversary, & the geneticist behind the original Project Conscience.

Together they must put aside their differences to fight against a scheme so ruthless in intent & so vast in scope that it will irrevocably change the evolution of mankind itself.

Crime Zero is a terrifyingly credible thriller based on technological developments that are already with us. At its core is the story of one man's desperate fight for self-determination & free will in a world where such qualities are in danger of imminent extinction...







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When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers in the act of selling a large consignment of cocaine to undercover police officers in a Heathrow hotel, goes horribly wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the officers involved: ...

The Crimean War is full of resonance
- not least, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Sevastopol & Florence Nightingale
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The Crimean War is full of resonance
- not least, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Sevastopol & Florence Nightingale
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Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husb&, fallen on a distant battlefield.

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The Bonehunters are marching to Kolanse, & to an unknown fate. Tormented & exhausted, they are an army on the brink of mutiny. But Adjunct Tavore will not relent. If she can hold her forces together, if the fragile alliances she has forged can survive & if it is within her power, one final act remains. For Tavore Paran means to challenge the gods.
Ranged against Tavore & her allies are formidable foes. The Fokrul Assail are drawing upon a terrible power; their desire is to cleanse the world
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When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is terrified. Although seventeen years of age, she has never been on a bus or a train, has never played with a child of her own age. She has almost no knowledge of a world described by her mother as evil & destructive. Their strange, enclosed life together is over because Eve has killed a man. & he is not the first. With -100 in cash, Liza is cast aside. However, she is not alone. There is one particular secret she has kept from her mother
- her love affair with a young man who worked in the big house. With him, gradually Liza learns about the world, about herself, & must come to terms with the possibility that the murderous violence of her mother may be present in her.
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