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The Experiment
The Experiment
Author: John Darnton
ISBN-13: 9781559275712
ISBN-10: 1559275715
Publication Date: 9/1999
Edition: Abridged
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 2
Great sci-fi book! Medical science type. Cloning, murder, deceit. Enjoyed it very much.
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Helpful Score: 1
A scientific thriller that moved a bit slow in the middle.
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Helpful Score: 1
Really makes you think. Couldn't put it down.
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Helpful Score: 1
I was surprised to find I really enjoyed this book, as I usually don't read this type. Plenty of action, although it does move a bit slow a few times. Sort of X-Files creepy. Although it's kind of sci-fi, it seems like something that could be happening now. It will make you think.
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Excellent book with a surprise ending.
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"Doctors Frankenstein and Jekyll have nothing on this bunch. THE EXPERIMENT is a thrilling life-extension science-gone-mad novel for smart people, with some intriguing ideas about what our future may hold" -- John Sandford
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This book reminded me very much of the movie "The Island" When I started reading it, I thought that it must be the book the movie was based on, but it is not. A really good read with lots of food for thought. This could be happening right now.
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I found this better than Neanderthal. A good suspenseful read.
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A fast paced 480 pages.
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good read. unusual plot.
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A few nice twists, but overall somewhat predictable. Good book for wasting away a rainy day.
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I had trouble getting interested in this book.
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Skylar was the test subject, and the Lab was his home. Carefully attended to by physicians, he never had a reason to leave the Lab. Until he found one of the other test subjects deal - with his heart removed.
Jude was a journalist, and New York was his beat. Always looking for a good story, he was intrigued by the police's latest discovery. A murder victim - with its face and fingerprints removed.
Skylar escapes. Jude investigates. And now, united by the mysteries of science and murder, the two men are forced to make sense of one startling, seemingly impossible fact...
They share the same face. The Experiment is out of control.
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Skyler was a test subject, and the Lab was his home. Carefully attended to by physicians, he never ahd a reason to leave the Lab. Until he found one of the other test subjects dead - with his heart removed.
Jude was a journalist, and New York was his beat. Always looking for a good story, he was intrigued by the police's latest discovery. A murder victim - with its face and fingerprints removed.
Skyler escapes. Jude investigates. And now, united by the mysteries of science and murder, the two men are forced to make sense of one startling, seemingly impossible fact...they share the same face.
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FROM THE PUBLISHER

New York, at century's end; A mutilated body has been found, its face and fingerprints removed, a coin-sized circle carved into its upper thigh. On a remote island off the Southeast coast, a young man is running from a place he cannot survive, toward a world he cannot comprehend. And in the echoing canyons of Manhattan, another young man - a journalist - is moving closer to the truth about his own past, and to an encounter that will alter everything he has ever believed about himself..

"For thirty years a colony with its own laws, values, and complex living systems has been growing. Covertly supplied with the latest technology and DNA materials, its leaders carefully monitor their human trials and conceal the inhabitants from the outside world.

Now someone has escaped. When Jude finds him cowering in the shadows of his apartment hallway, he will understand why this ragged stranger who calls himself Skyler is so frightened.. "They share the same face.. "Now Jude and Skyler are running together - bound by a new, secret science - hunted by unknown pursuers as they search for the mystery of their birth. Aided by a doctor with her own dangerous secret, they flee across the country, drawing nearer to a conspiracy at the very heart of America's power structure...survivors of an experiment that has gone tragically, irreversibly wrong.
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from the back cover:
Skyler was a test subject, and the Lab was his home. Carefully attended to by physicians, he never had a reason to leave the Lab. Until he found on othe the other test subjects dead - with his heart removed.
Jude was a journalist, and New York was his beat. Always looking for a good story, he was intrigues by the police's latest discovery. A murder victim - with its face and fingerprints removed.
Skyler escapes. Jude invesitgates. And now, united by the mysteries of science and murder, the two men are forced to make sense of one startling, seemingly impossible fact..... they share the same face.