cover image Knockout Mouse: A Bill Damen Silicon Valley Mystery

Knockout Mouse: A Bill Damen Silicon Valley Mystery

Chronicle Books, James Calder. Chronicle Books, $11.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-8118-3499-5

When Silicon Valley filmmaker Bill Damen learns that a guest at his girlfriend's dinner party has died, allegedly of food poisoning, the natural-born PI goes into investigative ""stealth mode""; a quick visit to the dead woman's biotech company, LifeScience Molecules, has him convinced he's looking at a coverup, if not downright murder. James Calder follows the determined Bill through state of the art genetics labs and agricultural research departments led by brilliant, ambitious scientists willing to do anything to get to the top in his well-researched and timely debut, Knockout Mouse.