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Body of Work
A biotech empire guards a secret no one is meant to uncover. Death isn’t the end.
Olivia is a wife and young mother raising twins on a quiet rural farm. Distant from the danger and unaware of it, her pastoral world feels safe.
She is wrong.
An unexpected connection draws her into Haloderm, a biomedical company advancing robotic surgery, AI-driven diagnostics, organ reuse, and deep space travel medicine.
Publicly, it saves lives.
Privately, human cadavers are cataloged, barcoded, valued, and sold.
Olivia checked the organ donor box years ago. It felt simple. Generous.
Now she understands what that signature meant.
Once a body enters the system, it never leaves.
Blending medical innovation with artificial intelligence and corporate power, Body of Work is more than a thriller.
Readers say it changed how they think about consent, ownership, and the systems they trust. Publisher’s Weekly gave it an “A” and praised its extraordinarily gripping narrative and surprise ending.
After this novel, you may never look at modern medicine or your own body the same way again.
An Eric Hoffer Award Gold Medal Finalist for Best Fiction.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Body of Work - An Eric Hoffer Award, Gold MedalFinalist - Best FictionA biotech empire guards a secret no one is meant to uncover. It's that death is no longer the end.Olivia is a wife and young mother raising twins on a quiet rural farm. Seemingly, far from the danger and unaware of it, she feels safe in her pastoral world, but she is wrong. An unexpected connection draws her into Haloderm, a biomedical company advancing robotic surgery, AI-driven diagnostics, organ reuse, and deep space travel medicine.Publicly, it saves lives. Privately, human cadavers are cataloged, barcoded, valued, and sold. Olivia checked the organ donor box years ago. It felt simple. generous. Now she understands what that signature meant. Once a body enters the system, it never leaves.Blending medical innovation with artificial intelligence and corporate power, Body of Work is more than a thriller.For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Robin Cook's Coma, A thought-provoking speculative thriller that asks the hard questions about technology, medicine, and what it means to be human.Readers say it changed how they think about consent, ownership, and the systems they trust. Publisher's Weekly gave it an "A" and praised its extraordinarily gripping narrative and surprise ending.After this novel, you may never look at modern medicine or your own body the same way again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798298714754
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. E. L. Wilk weaves a chilling, critically acclaimed thriller that blurs the line between medical science, morality, and the human soul. At its heart lies a question both intimate and universal: what does it truly mean to possess a body-and what happens when that body becomes a commodity. Body of Work is a haunting, fast-paced medical thriller that explores the razor's edge where innovation, exploitation, and humanity collide. At its center is Olivia, a devoted mother of twins and a woman whose sharp intelligence and compassion mask deep vulnerabilities. Her family's life on a quiet farm seems far removed from the corporate and clinical worlds of cutting-edge medicine. But when her path crosses with Haloderm-a powerful biomedical company promising to reshape the future of surgery, organ preservation, and long-distance space medicine-Olivia is drawn into a web that reaches far beyond her rural life. Haloderm presents itself as a force for good: developing robotic surgical suites that could save lives on Earth and beyond. Yet behind closed doors, it wages a battle against the "ghouls," profiteers who traffic in human skin and organs. The company's mission is shadowed by secrecy, ambition, and the ethical minefields of a medical industry where bodies are often treated as currency. As Olivia becomes entwined with Haloderm's work, the stakes turn deeply personal. Her roles as mother, wife, and survivor collide with forces that would claim her body, her choices, and even her family's future. On the farm, surrounded by the simple rhythms of rural life, she struggles to hold onto a sense of normalcy while navigating a reality where science and morality no longer align. At its heart, Body of Work is about not only the dangers of unchecked innovation but also resilience and love. It asks: What do we owe our families? How do we protect them when the body itself becomes a battlefield? And when corporations and traffickers alike see flesh as profit, who has the right to say what a life is worth? E. L. Wilk blends chilling real-world medical research with speculative possibility to deliver a story that is both intimate and universal. Body of Work is a meditation on motherhood, survival, and integrity in an age when every body has a price tag. Olivia's fight-set against the stark contrast of a family farm and the sterile world of biotechnology-becomes a testament to the endurance of love in the face of exploitation. Thrilling, poignant, and deeply human, Body of Work leaves readers questioning the future of medicine, the cost of progress, and the lengths we go to protect those we love. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798298714754
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Body of Work - An Eric Hoffer Award, Gold MedalFinalist - Best FictionA biotech empire guards a secret no one is meant to uncover. It's that death is no longer the end.Olivia is a wife and young mother raising twins on a quiet rural farm. Seemingly, far from the danger and unaware of it, she feels safe in her pastoral world, but she is wrong. An unexpected connection draws her into Haloderm, a biomedical company advancing robotic surgery, AI-driven diagnostics, organ reuse, and deep space travel medicine.Publicly, it saves lives. Privately, human cadavers are cataloged, barcoded, valued, and sold. Olivia checked the organ donor box years ago. It felt simple. generous. Now she understands what that signature meant. Once a body enters the system, it never leaves.Blending medical innovation with artificial intelligence and corporate power, Body of Work is more than a thriller.For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Robin Cook's Coma, A thought-provoking speculative thriller that asks the hard questions about technology, medicine, and what it means to be human.Readers say it changed how they think about consent, ownership, and the systems they trust. Publisher's Weekly gave it an 'A' and praised its extraordinarily gripping narrative and surprise ending.After this novel, you may never look at modern medicine or your own body the same way again. Seller Inventory # 9798298714754
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