Mutation
Автор:
Cook RobinЖанр:
Старинная литература: Прочее;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
71
Like many of Cook's earlier novels ( Coma , Brain , Fever ), this overheated medical thriller covers a hokey, old-fashioned contrivance the creation of a mad scientist runs amok with a veneer of cutting-edge technology. The result resembles an ancient, none-too-scary horror movie played out on modern sets. The author's version of evil genius Dr. Frankenstein is Dr. Victor Frank, a bio-physicist who is driven by his wife Marsha's infertility to create a monster: a son whose genetic structure has been designed to preordain brilliance. Keeping the experiment a secret from his wife, he implants similar embryos in two other women as well. ('When I did it, it seemed like a good idea,' he claims, in one of the novel's funnier lines.) A decade later, his work goes awry; the other children die...
