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The carrier

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Jack Collier is a brilliant but troubled Ph.D. candidate at Harvard-the kid from the wrong side of the tracks. But he has an idea that will make medical history: train Strep A bacteria (also known as flesh-eating bacteria) to attack tumors rather than healthy flesh. When his mentor, a reknowned professor, steals Jack's idea and sets him up to get expelled from Harvard, Jack is nearly destroyed. And something has gone wrong with the cure. As Jack travels across the country, he unknowingly leaves a wake of death in his tracks. A sympathetic FBI agent wants to find Jack and stop him-before those…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2001
    St. Martin's Paperbacks · 320 pages · 9780312978587
  • Other · English · 2003
    Carrier
    Ulverscroft Large Print Bks. · 9780708948071
  • Other · English · 2001
    Carrier
    The Crowood Press · 9780709069591
  • Other · English · 2000
    St. Martin's Press · 275 pages · 9780312205836
  • Other · English · 2000
    Carrier
    St. Martin's Press · 9780312271541
CancerGovernment investigatorsFictionGraduate studentsTreatmentMedical teaching personnelFiction, medicalFiction, thrillers, general