Kingdom: Tiber City Blues

In a near future dominated by biotechnology, biogeneticist Jonathan Campbell, former mentor and longtime research partner to bioengineering mogul Michael Morrison, discovers the true nature of his former pupil’s human experimentation and flees into the desert, where he falls in with the mysterious Order of Neshamah. Michael’s daughter, Meghan, is also forced to face her father’s cruelty and callous inhumanity, and she vows to bring him down. Her former boyfriend, political scion Dylan Fitzgerald, may hold the key to Michael’s downfall in his DNA. O’Donnell baldly but earnestly compares and contrasts his capitalist dystopia with present-day society, encouraging readers to ask where scientific endeavors to alter human nature might someday lead. Readers concerned by the concentration of power and wealth among a few elite will nod along with this intriguing, if arguably overcomplicated, tale of warning. (BookLife)