INVASIVE PROCEDURES

Tor, New York, 2007, 1^st, 1^st.  ISBN 0-7653-1424-X / 978-0-7653-1424-6.  Hard cover, 351 pages including Afterword.  Very good; light edge wear, spine ends lightly bumped; binding sound with headbands; remainder dot on top edge.  Dust jacket with price intact has a bit of edge wear, light scratches and creases, small impressions, a few light rubs.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  ‘The Healers move in secrecy through the city streets, their huge, strong bodies hidden in dark cloaks.  They bring a deadly promise to the poor of the city.  They can cure the incurable diseases – Parkinson’s, sickle cell – and they ask for nothing in return.  But the genetic therapy techniques they are using are so targeted that what will cure one can, and will, bring certain painful death to anyone else exposed.  The Healers are not doctors, not scientists.  They are members of a religious cult that is ruled by their living Prophet.  That man is George Galen, a brilliant scientist and a pioneer in genetic therapy.  But Galen is dangerously insane.  He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to “improve” people, to make them stronger, able to heal more quickly, and compliant to his will.’ (from front flap)