Syndrome

Syndrome

SYNDROME They were promised a miracle cure for the deadly diseases destroying their lives. It seemed too good to be true, but to the desperate and dying it was the only chance for survival. Now theyre part of a bizarre secret experiment that reverses the aging process an experiment gone out of control. To stop the madness, one woman must enter a shocking nightmare world, where scientists control your body and your mind and living makes you beg for death . . . In her midthirties, Alexa Hampton runs her own interior design firm in New Yorks Soho and has a daily run to keep fit. But now her world is narrowing as a childhood heart mishap increasingly threatens to lethally impact her life. Then out of nowhere her blacksheep younger brother appears and insists she go to a clinic in New Jersey to enter stemcell clinical trials that are working wonders. The clinic is owned by her brothers boss, the eccentric millionaire Winston Bartlett. Also interested in the clinic is the medical reporter Stone Aimes, whos hoping to penetrate Bartletts veil of secrecy and find out whats going on there. He has personal as well as professional reasons for wanting to get closer to Winston Bartlett. He is also a longago lover of Alexas and still carrying something of a torch for her though they have long been out of touch. As Alexa investigates the clinic, their paths cross and together they slowly uncover the horrifying truth about what can happen when stemcell technology is taken to its ultimate limit. A bizarre secret experiment to reverse the aging process has gone out of control. Winston Bartletts young mistress, the TV personality Kristen Starr, had an antiaging procedure that went awry and now all her cells are being replaced with new. The side effects are horrific. No one can stop what is happening: she is growing younger, destined to become a child again. Bartlett has had the same procedure and now he knows hes next. Its only a matter of time till he too regresses to childhood, and then . . . no one knows. Alexa and Stone become prisoners in the clinic and then Bartlett and his Dutch medical researcher Karl van der Vliet begin a bizarre experiment on Alexa, hoping to produce antibodies to save Kristen, and Bartlett. In a stunning, blazing finale, Alexa turns the tables on them all, only to discover that shes now, suddenly unlike anyone else who has ever lived. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 34321
Author: Hoover, Thomas
Release Date: Nov 14, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English