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thereby circumventing a nomination process—if Wynn had the grace to die in a timely fashion. “We want to be prepared to act, if the time comes.”
hoping to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Absolutely,” he lied without qualm.
my roommate, Dr. Ling Yin.”
“I didn’t realize Boursin’s had caught anyone’s attention.” “By itself, the disease is not considered very important,” Ling explained in apology. “However, the genetic markers of Boursin’s syndrome have some singular properties. Like with Parkinson’s and Huntington’s, some biogeneticists believe that a cure exists in resequencing the DNA or in targeting the faulty chromosomes that trigger the syndromes.”
“Meaning,” Ling responded with a smile, “that there’s a theory in the field that if a gene therapy can target certain chromosomes, like Boursin’s with specific signatures, techniques can be developed to apply the process across other genetic markers.”
Hygeia did a great deal of research on Y haplogroups.”
A number of bioethicists have worried about the weaponization of gene therapy.”
“Guess who the author is?” Avery gazed at the emails strewn across the table. Look to the river. “TigrisLost.”
TigrisLost?”
Those numbers are code for genetic and archaeogenetic mapping.”
Sjögren-Larsson syndrome
“Think about why the division happened—to separate ethnic and religious groups who once lived in the same nation.”
“If I’m not mistaken, all these people are part of the Muslim minority that remained in India.”
A blandly handsome twentysomething read from a teleprompter, joined by his preternaturally lovely, ethnically indescribable cohost.
Justice Wynn goes into his third evening in a coma
3rd evening feels moreie 3 weeks!
Exon-Florio Amendment
garrote
“Terrorists use a variety of methods to undermine our national security. Anticipating those threats is Major Vance’s job.”
“Major Vance is the official liaison from Homeland Security to the president.”
“CBIRF?” Avery asked. “Chemical Biological Incident Response Force.”
“CBIRF is a strategic unit of the Marines designed to manage the consequence of chemical and biological threats to national security.”
Technology Directorate at the impenetrable DHS.
DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY= DHS
Dr. Betty Papaleo, in the Science and Technology Directorate at Homeland.”
E.mployee of Major Vance
Castillo had tracked Keene to the Lincoln Memorial, where she had found nothing.
Curlee
Phillips left, and Vance punched in Agent Lee’s number. “Special Agent Lee.” “This is Vance.” “Calling to check in on our girl?”
They’d nicknamed it the Sleeping Beauty drug. Irreversible coma but stabilized vital signs.
“Tell her.” “Tell who what?” “Your pet attorney. Use her to reveal the truth.” “Are you insane?
Tell her Hygeia attempted to manufacture a genetic virus to kill Muslims—with research illegally funded by the U.S. government—and the successor corporation now wants to take over my company? You don’t think this might damage our fucking merger?”
The scientists at Hygeia had used American dollars to engage in research that violated every national or international treaty she could imagine, let alone the basic tenets of morality.
Did the president of the United States know what had been done under his watch?
the merger succeeds, the president’s archenemy, Nigel Cooper, will have access to data proving his administration sanctioned research into biogenetic genocide.”
biogenetic virus that can kill anyone with the wrong chromosomal mutation.”
Noah asked the question first: “Do we think President Stokes was complicit, or did Major Vance act alone?”
“The person who can tell us is Ani. He’s the one who blew the whistle and tipped off ...
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“If the justice’s speech at the commencement is to be believed, he clearly thought President Stokes was a part of the conspiracy.”
“Which Ani can confirm, if you can figure out where he is.”
Where the other scion of justice is known but not seen. Where the world meets. Over and over, Justice Wynn and Ani had met online in a virtual world of battle, signaling to each other using the phrase “in the square.”
“Your father loves history and his own name.
he compares himself to William Howard Taft.
And he sees himself as a child of justice—a s...
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William Seward.”
“Farragut, McPherson, Mount Vernon, Lafayette, and Seward. That’s where Ani is.”
Seward’s statue is not in Seward Square. They’ve never put one up.
He’s also a ‘scion of justice’ because Seward and his wife were abolitionists who hid escaped slaves in their home.
the embodiment of a modern Hieronymus Bosch painting. Destruction perfected.
The place known as Seward Square sat at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and North Carolina Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Justice Wynn had recommended the location,
genome.
Avery
A very
