About the Author

New York Times best-selling author Lewis Perdue’s twenty published books have sold more than 4 million copies and have been translated into every major language in the world along with more than a dozen other tongues. Of his twenty published books, fifteen are thrillers and the remaining five cover wine, technology, and how porn has driven the technology and business model of the World Wide Web. Perdue studied physics and biology in college and usually works those into his books. He received his B.S. (1972) with distinction from Cornell University and graduated sixth in his class. He has served on the faculties at UCLA and Cornell University, founded four companies including two technology firms, a wine company and a magazine, and been a top aide to a U.S. Senator and a state governor. He has also run political races for Congress, worked as a Washington (D.C) correspondent (Ottaway/Dow-Jones, States News Service), a columnist for Gannett, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch and TheStreet.Com. He also writes book reviews for Barron’s. Perdue’s interests include: Running, mountain biking, backpacking, reading, and home improvement. Among his favorite movies are: The Matrix, MIB, In the Heat of the Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, Enemy of the State, and Pelican Brief. His musical taste (or lack thereof) runs the gamut of: Warren Zevon, Mozart, ZZ Top, Boston, Eagles, Billy Idol, Heart, Queen, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Skip James, and Eric Clapton.

Slatewiper

In Tokyo, a particularly violent and deadly plague has broken out. Inexplicably, it seems as if the virus only uses Koreans as its carrier.

Enter Lara Blackwood, a genetic engineer recruited to fight this virus that somehow piggybacks itself on people with specific genetic characteristics. Ejected from her own company, Lara sees in this investigation her chance to get herself back in the research game, but she doesn’t count on uncovering a genetic weapon of unimaginable power, a weapon that appears to have its origins in her own work.

Like the high-tech medical thrillers of Michael Crichton, this novel deftly combines hard science and narrative panache. Perdue has crafted a story that grips the reader’s imagination: Can this be real? Is it possible for such a weapon to exist?

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Other Sites

Daughter of God, The original art and Vatican conspiracy thriller about religion and the search for the lost Goddess in Christianity.

The Da Vinci Crock This is a blog covering the Random House/Dan Brown plagiarism court case.

Writopia This is a blog covering Dan Brown's various fabrications, boasts and fictional inflation of his life and accomplishments.

The French Paradox and Beyond, The best-selling book on wine and health. The entire text is available free.

Eroticabiz: How Sex Shaped The Internet, The best-selling analysis of the adult industry's role in developing the online world's major technologies: from video streams to payment systems. The entire text is available free.

Books'n Blues, A charity fundraiser that Lew organized in his hometown of Greenwood, Mississippi to make an opportunity to create opportunities in the Mississippi Delta

Radical Egyptian Clerics Seek to Legalise Child Brides

Thursday, 15th November 2012

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