About This Book
In 2045, genetic editing has moved from medical miracle to black market commodity — and someone has used it to transform Interpol agent Kenneth Durand into the very criminal he's been hunting. Suarez builds his thriller around a genuinely unsettling premise: what happens when identity itself becomes malleable, when the body you inhabit can be rewritten against your will? The stakes are both intimate and civilizational, forcing Durand to navigate a world where the line between human and engineered has already been crossed, and where the next step in evolution might be bought and sold.
Suarez writes with the obsessive specificity of a technologist who did the research — the science here feels grounded rather than hand-waved, which makes the horror more visceral. The plot moves at a relentless clip, but the book earns its pace by grounding the action in a fully realized near-future Asia that feels extrapolated rather than invented. Where lesser thrillers treat biotech as backdrop, Suarez makes it the engine of every twist, using the mechanics of CRISPR and gene editing to generate plot complications that couldn't exist in any other story.