The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery (Audiobook, MP3)
From Victorian India to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes listeners on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.
From the world's bestselling master of the medical thriller comes this tale of a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding.
"Chromosome 6" is a
science thriller about some scientists in Africa that are using cloning to
create subhuman monkeys using bonobos so that their body parts can harvested
for the specific human who is matched with the animal, and about a medical examiner
named Jack Stapleton who discovers at the morgue in New York City while working
that something strange is going on. He notices during an autopsy that a man had
had a liver transplant but for some reason he has trouble finding out where and
when and also the man didn't need anti - immunity drugs, in other words the
body did not try to reject the liver. Jack digs deep to find the answer and the
two plots finally connect. I felt I was educated as I read the book, it was very well detailed with
scientific and medical information, but not boring, book keeps a good pace. An exciting read.
