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Voices of Babylon
If the title Voices of Babylon conjures up Biblical images of cities of sin, armies of murdering marauders, towers of mud brick and twigs, cities of splendorous hanging gardens and whatnot, well, you're a good three thousand years off the mark. Voices is none of that. Nor is the story futuristic science fiction, as in "Babylon 5" et al. Set in current times, Voices of Babylon is a tale of thoroughly modern evil, a fast-paced techno-thriller about genes and genius, about the mixed blessings of scientific progress, and, of course, about the eternal battle between good and evil.
Welcome to the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Edward P. Roundhouse, a quiet genius, a biochemistry wizard, with a sixth sense of the human mind. To his friends, he was a brilliant joker. To his professors, he was the messiah--a portal into a world free of disease and infirmity. And yet when he died, 25 years ago, an unknowing world barely breathed a sigh at its loss.
But now the evidence of his genius is everywhere—from the potent street hallucinogen KC, and the mysterious sterility epidemic in Africa, to the East German Stasi's ghastly myth-killing drug Babylon. Governments, police, and intelligence agencies are frantically searching for him and most don't even know it.
What they also don't know is that the world is on the verge of a genetic calamity that could forever alter the human race. That only Detective Cameron Gilly knows, and he must find a way to stop it.