Invasive Procedures is a novel written by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. Released in 2007, it is an expansion of Card's short story Malpractice and tells of an insane doctor trying to use genetic engineering to reshape humanity.
Characters[]
- Frank Hartman - the leader of the BHA
- George Galen - an insane doctor who runs the Healers
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Publisher's summary[]
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.
Frank Hartman is a brilliant virologist working for the government's ultrasecret biohazard agency. It is to Hartman that the BHA turns to find a way to cure the deadly disease that keeps breaking loose in Los Angeles. He has discovered how to neutralize Galen's DNA-changing virus, making him the one man who stands in the way of Galen's plan to improve the human race.
This taut thriller takes the reader a few years into the future, to the promise and dangers of genetic medicine.
Sources[]
- Goodreads
- Wikipedia