Biotoxin - Softcover

Gartner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410765008 ISBN 13: 9781410765000

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

An EPA Scientist, Jon Kepler, discovers an unknown compound in a fish tissue sample from Lake Michigan. The compound seems to be related to the pollutant, PCBs. As Jon sleuths the source of the unknown chemical, he enters a race to convince both the EPA and the City of Chicago that some recent deaths might be related to the consumption of fish from the Lake. That deaths are recorded by the County Coroner, noting that the patients spent the last 30 hours of their lives in screaming agony as the Calcium was dissolved from their bones, making them "slug-like" in death. Jon teams with a biologist from an EPA contractor, a police captain and an Army Corps of Engineers buddy to try to stop the disease-carrying fish from reaching the St. Lawrence Seaway and from their into the worlds oceans. A combination Clive Cussler-Stephen King novel, BIOTOXIN is a fast, energetic read and is a fascinating mix of mystery, terror, sex, and two people's dedication to an ideal and the fate of the world population.

About this title

About the Author:

William Gartner is a graduate scientist with 18 issued patents and more than 30 years experience in the environmental field with many appearances on television and in the press. This father of 5 children has long been a prolific technical writer and wanted to combine that scientific knowledge with a vivid imagination and motion picture mind to create the ultimate novel of environmental terror. Mr. Gartner has traveled extensively throughout Asia and Europe visiting industrial sites that have been heavily polluted. The author lived in the Chicago area for more than 25 years and based the novel in the area. Many of the locations, buildings, lakes, tributaries and other geographical places are real. The circumstances on which the concept of a biotoxin is based is not outside the realm of possibility. His education includes a degree in Chemistry from Lewis University and graduate studies at Northwestern University. Mr. Gartner is working on two additional novels. The first, titled Canals, is aboutthe first manned mission to Mars and what they fined in the Canals. The second is titled 2022 and is about a judicial computer program that loses its goals and direction.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1410765008
• ISBN 13: 9781410765000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324