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Frameshift
By Robert J. Sawyer

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Geneticist Pierre Tardivel may not have long to live—he’s got a fifty-fifty chance of having the gene for Huntington’s disease. But if his DNA is tragic, his girlfriend’s is astonishing: Molly Bond has a mutation that gives her telepathy. Both of them have attracted the interest of Pierre’s boss, Dr. Burian Klimus, a senior researcher in the Human Genome Project who just might be hiding a horrific past. Avi Meyer, a dogged Nazi hunter, thinks Klimus was the monstrous “Ivan the Terrible” of the Treblinka Death Camp. As Pierre races against the ticking clock of his own DNA to make a world-changing scientific breakthrough, Avi also races against time to bring Klimus to justice before the last survivors of Treblinka pass away.

Winner of the Seiun Award—Japan’s top honor in science fiction—and a finalist for the Hugo Award, Frameshift is classic Robert J. Sawyer, combining a heart-wrenching human story and cutting-edge science into a pulse-pounding thriller that “delivers the real thing with subtlety and great skill” (Toronto Star).

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #36073 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-11-01
  • Released on: 2005-10-13
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .95" h x 5.92" w x 8.16" l, .67 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 352 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.com
There is a 50 percent chance that geneticist Pierre Tardivel is carrying the gene for Huntington's Disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre in his work on the Human Genome Project, an attempt by scientists to map human genes. But a strange set of circumstances--including a knife attack, the in vitro fertilization of his wife, and an insurance company plot to use DNA samples to weed out clients predisposed to early deaths--draw Tardivel into a story that will ultimately involve the hunt for a Nazi death camp doctor. Frameshift shows why the New York Times calls Robert J. Sawyer "a writer of boundless confidence."

From Library Journal
A Nebula Award winner and Hugo Award nominee, Sawyer has created a gripping medical sf thriller. Pierre Tardivel, a French Canadian geneticist, works on identifying junk DNA for the Human Genome Project. At risk for contracting Huntington's chorea, Tardivel drives himself to succeed in a race against time to complete his research. Skillfully interwoven is the misidentification of John Demjanjuk as the Treblinka death camp's Ivan the Terrible, the cloning of Neanderthal genes, and a greedy insurance company that illegally and clandestinely takes DNA samples from its policy owners and kills high-risk clients before it has to pay out large claims. Highly recommended for sf collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
That a Nobel laureate who has successfully extracted a Neanderthal's DNA from its skeleton might not be an ideal sperm donor doesn't occur to Molly and her geneticist husband, Pierre, until young Amanda's looks and actions start to seem unusual. Sawyer twines this plot strand with two others: the expected development of heritable Huntington's disease in Pierre (the reason he and Molly were attempting in vitro fertilization) and the machinations of an insurance company whose clients with high-cost medical problems have also suffered a high rate of homicide. Behind those murders may be a brutal former concentration camp guard, but who among several likely candidates is actually he proves hard to ascertain. Pierre's symptoms increasingly manifest themselves as award-winning sf scribe Sawyer's unputdownable thriller proceeds to a violent conclusion. William Beatty