Kurzbeschreibung
THE DESCENDANT is a technothriller for older readers set in the world of the international, best-selling young-adult series, THE JOSHUA FILES, also by M.G. Harris.
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Molecular geneticist Jackson Bennett is stunned when the colleague he’s meeting at Mexico City airport is led away by the authorities. Now they're after him, too. On the run, Jackson discovers that he's been passed a mysterious test-tube containing the missing scientist's final, coded message.
With the help of archaeologist, Dr. Marie-Carmen Valencia, Jackson must now decipher the message and solve a puzzle which begins with an enigmatic DNA code and ends with a long-forgotten, ancient burial chamber in Iraq.
The two young scientists are drawn into a headlong race to unlock human powers so ancient that the memory of them exists only in the human genome, so world-changing that their owners could control the destiny of the earth.
Praise for THE JOSHUA FILES by the same author:
"Will keep you up all night to finish" San Jose Mercury News
"Satisfyingly twisty" Financial Times
"An absorbing read." The Australian
For videos, THE DESCENDANT Alternate Reality Game and a chance to win a Kindle Touch in a code-cracking competition (terms & conditions apply) see:
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Available at a SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL PRICE for limited introductory period.
Molecular geneticist Jackson Bennett is stunned when the colleague he’s meeting at Mexico City airport is led away by the authorities. Now they're after him, too. On the run, Jackson discovers that he's been passed a mysterious test-tube containing the missing scientist's final, coded message.
With the help of archaeologist, Dr. Marie-Carmen Valencia, Jackson must now decipher the message and solve a puzzle which begins with an enigmatic DNA code and ends with a long-forgotten, ancient burial chamber in Iraq.
The two young scientists are drawn into a headlong race to unlock human powers so ancient that the memory of them exists only in the human genome, so world-changing that their owners could control the destiny of the earth.
Praise for THE JOSHUA FILES by the same author:
"Will keep you up all night to finish" San Jose Mercury News
"Satisfyingly twisty" Financial Times
"An absorbing read." The Australian
For videos, THE DESCENDANT Alternate Reality Game and a chance to win a Kindle Touch in a code-cracking competition (terms & conditions apply) see:
facebook.com/thedescendant
Über den Autor
About the Author M. G. HARRIS is the author of THE DESCENDANT - a technothriller, and the internationally best-selling young adult thrillers, THE JOSHUA FILES. She was born in Mexico City but lived most of her life in Manchester, England. As a teenager, trips to the Mayan ruins gave her the seed of the idea for what would later become the JOSHUA FILES series. She studied biochemistry at St Catherine's College and St Cross College, Oxford, and worked as a research scientist before setting up an IT company. MG began writing THE DESCENDANT - a technothriller - when a skiing accident left her with a broken leg and the time to write. MG lives in Oxford, UK with her husband and their two daughters. www.themgharris.com
