"He kicked the leather chair away and instantly the rope snapped tight. His lungs burned and the veins in his face felt close to bursting. His brown eyes bulged as if in surprise. But he knew he had to die. It was his only option.
Human experiments in Zimbabwe. An Australian farmer's death. A Sydney CEO's suicide. These events are linked in the mind of one woman, Serena Swift, a ballsy advertising director with a guilty conscience who takes on the world’s most powerful biotech company - Gene-Asis.
Serena hooks up with a hacker and disguises herself to infiltrate Gene-Asis in an attempt to expose the company’s horrific genetic experiments. She little realises her investigations are being watched. Suddenly Swift's informants disappear, she is hunted by a hired killer and framed for murder. Chased from Sydney to New York, she must face the man she fears most, on his own turf. If she fails, nothing can stop a global catastrophe. And nobody can help her - except a dead man."
The Genesis Flaw is an environmental thriller that is spine-chillingly pertinent for our times and will grip readers from beginning to end. Download the first chapter of the book here.
What the critics say...
'L.A. Larkin's The Genesis Flaw combines corporate dystopia and the moral fringes of bio-science to create a savvy, entertaining environmental thriller.' The Age
'It tells the story of one woman's fight against the corporate greed involved in genetically modified foods, and will have you riding a frantic roller-coaster of plot twists until the final resolution.' Sunday Telegraph Magazine
'This Australian-based debut deserves a place among the big names...a sweaty-palm page-turner with short chapters and loads of action. It's the literary equivalent of The Day After Tomorrow or Lost; exciting, compulsive reading.' Lachlan Jobbins, Bookseller + Publisher
'Deserves comparisons to Michael Crichton and John Grisham' ABC North Queensland
'Larkin wanted her book to have a gutsy heroine. And she has delivered that with the character of Serena Swift.' North Shore Times
'A thriller that will captivate and continue to engage to the very last turn of the page.' Danielle Mulholland, MC Reviews 'Words'
