Mortal fear - Robin Cook (First UK edition)

From the author of Outbreak, Mindbend, Coma and many other bestsellers, Mortal Fear is the story of a scientist who is murdered for the secrets he has uncovered—and of one man's search for the truth.

The scientist is Dr. Alvin Hayes, the eminent biomolecular geneticist, whose brilliant research has led him to a spectacular breakthrough.

Internist Jason Howard didn't know him well, and had no reason to be involved with him—until the man died violently before his very eyes. That was when the truth came out with a vengeance, it seemed, for Dr. Hayes had led a double life, and the private side was damning.

But Jason, dismissing for his own reasons police reports linking Hayes' death to his disreputable connections, thinks he was silenced to keep him from revealing the deadly messages of his research.

Jason's search for the truth takes him from the steamy sex clubs of Boston's erotic underworld to modern high-tech genetics laboratories, and by the time the pieces of the puzzle fall into place he himself has become the target of a group of killers who are bent on using the origins of life to create a living hell.

Splendidly researched and moving at a terrific pace, Mortal Fear is Robin Cook at his prophetic best.