In a future Earth recovering from a devastating plague, the radical environmental group Green Splinter assassinates politician Owen Lamberin Owen's adopted daughter, a gifted musician named Jasmine Rochelle, hires street-smart Mane Silverstar to help her track down her father's killer, and the unlikely pair are plunged into a world of genetically engineered drugs, political machinations and corporate greed leading them deep into the re-created South American rain forests, where a terrible secret is hidden

Includes an Introduction by Robert J Sawyer

Danita Maslan grew up in rural southern Ontario, exploring the forests there and imagining what the lives of the animals that lived there were like. A student trip to the reef in Belize in first year university hooked Danita on studying marine invertebrates. Danita has been a member of the Imaginative Fiction Writer's Association for over ten years and loves to travel. Danita Maslan lives in Calgary, Alberta, and is an educator at an urban ecopark.

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Robert J. Sawyer,
a Member of the Order of Canada and a Globe and Mail and Maclean's bestseller, is the author of 23 previous novels, including FlashForward, the basis for the ABC TV series. His most recent novel, Quantum Night, was long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads

Praise for Robert J. Sawyer

"A new Robert J. Sawyer book is always cause for celebration."
— Analog Science Fiction and Fact

"Robert J. Sawyer is a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation."
— The New York Times

"Sawyer not only has an irresistibly engaging narrative voice but also a gift for confronting thorny philosophical conundrums. At every opportunity, he forces his readers to think while holding their attention with ingenious premises and superlative craftsmanship."
— Booklist

"Robert J. Sawyer is by any measure one of the world's leading (and most interesting) science-fiction writers. His fiction is a fascinating blend of intellectually compelling big ideas and humane, enduring characters."
— The Globe and Mail

"Sawyer, an articulate fountain of ideas, is the genre's northern star—in fact, one of the hottest SF writers anywhere. By any reckoning Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever."
— Maclean's: Canada's Weekly News Magazine

"A polished, exciting writer. Sawyer writes with the scientific panache and grandeur of Arthur C. Clarke and the human touch of Isaac Asimov."
— Quill & Quire

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