No Time To Die
By Kira Peikoff
Kensington Publishing
ISBN13: 978-0-7860-3489-5
440 pages
School is back in session and for me that means I have slightly more time to myself than I do during the summer although I still have a younger one at home full-time. Nap time is my me-time and I really enjoy laying down and reading a good book. Nothing clears my mind more than a good read that sucks me into it the pages. The last few days I have been reading No Time to Die by Kira Peikoff and although it is the first book I have read by this author I am now officially hooked and I am already awaiting her next book to be released. I literally could not put this bio-thriller down!
Someone is out for blood?Zoe Kincaid’s blood. She’s a 20-year-old trapped in the body of a 14-year-old girl and her DNA could hold the secret of immortality. Could it be the Columbia University researchers who see her as the key to fame and tenure? The shadowy figure, known only as Galileo, who is kidnapping the world’s best researchers? The Justice Department head who seems a little too intent on getting her alone? Or the maniac who just fed a leading scientist to his chimpanzees?
Zoe knows that unlocking the secrets of genome could save her beloved grandfather, a retired physician and former Olympian who grows frailer by the day. Can she trust the rogue physician whose secret lair hides discoveries that might just save her grandfather? Heart-pounding twists just keep coming in Kira Peikoff’s stunning biomedical thriller, NO TIME TO DIE.
Science has barely begun to unlock the secrets written in our DNA. Researchers are relentlessly hunting for the answers to chronic diseases, cancer, rare disorders and the biggest mystery of them allagingbut at what cost? Bioethicist Peikoff asks the most troubling scientific question of our time in this taut thriller: when does medicine cross the line?
KIRA PEIKOFF is a writer based in New York City. She graduated with high honors from New York University in 2007 with a degree in journalism, after four years of various reporting internships: covering street crime for The Daily News, writing about Capitol Hill for The Orange County Register in Washington, D.C., reporting on business and technology for Newsday, and researching feature stories for New York magazine. After completing her first book, Living Proof, Peikoff worked for several years in the editorial departments at two New York publishing houses, which gave her an invaluable inside look at the publishing process and the rapidly changing industry. Peikoff is working on her third thriller, freelancing for a variety of major media outlets, and attending Columbia University’s Master of Science program in Bioethics.
Zoe is 20 years old but with a body of a 14 year old she has always felt isolated and with her parent’s constantly babying her she has never felt more alone. Going behind her parent’s back and seeing a specialized doctor she discovers that her DNA might be the key scientists have been looking for to possibly stop aging. She wants to move forward with the research but everything seems to be standing in her way. At the same time an underground group called The Network is run by a man named Galileo and patients as well as scientists are turning up missing all over the country. A calling card is mailed in the form of a postcard before the kidnappings even happen so that Les, who is in charge of a government group intent on cracking down on unethical scientific research, can see how powerful Galileo’s team really is. Zoe just wants answers but in times like these it is hard to know who to trust.
In this fast-paced thriller you find yourself thinking about aging and the whole process behind it. A whole book about people fighting each other for a piece of the DNA that might hold the secret to immortality is unique and that is what makes this book so fun to read. I feel like it is very well written and offers up the perfect amount of suspense to keep me on the edge of my seat and still offering up twists and turns that keep me wanting more. A perfect read for any lover of technology or bio-thrillers or any of you looking to try out a new genre. You may surprise yourself with how much you like reading something out of your comfort zone.
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