Sharkman Author:Steve Alten Kwan Wilson was a basketball star at his high school in San Diego until one fateful morning. Texting while driving, the sixteen-year-old hit a tree, killing his mother, who was in the passenger seat. When Kwan awoke, he was paralyzed from the waist down. His father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sends him off to live with his maternal grandmother in S... more »outh Florida. Depressed and feeling isolated, Kwan is befriended by his new principal, who tells him about an internship at a genetics lab in Miami working with shark stem cells that are being tested on rats to cure cancer and spinal injuries. Kwan passes . . . until he learns the beautiful Anya Patel is an intern at the lab. The good news is that the stem cells are curing their rat subjects; the bad news?it alters their DNA before killing them. When a promising breakthrough is made, Kwan decides to risk his life and inject himself with the experimental elixir of stem cells?thereby altering his destiny and the lives of millions in the process.« less