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Ancestor by Scott Sigler

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Also by Scott Sigler:

Beasts Beyond the River, October 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Alive, July 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The MVP, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Starter, August 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Rookie, August 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Nocturnal, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The All-Pro, September 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Ancestor, July 2010
Hardcover
Contagious, January 2009
Hardcover
Infected, October 2008
Paperback
Ancestor, April 2007
Paperback
Earthcore, October 2005
Paperback

ANCESTOR
By: Scott Sigler

first hardcover

Crown
July 2010
On Sale: June 22, 2010
Featuring: PJ Colding
320 pages
ISBN: 0307406334
EAN: 9780307406330
Hardcover
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Horror | Thriller

"The ancestors are out there...you have to believe me."

From acclaimed author Scott Sigler--New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious--comes a tale of genetic experimentation's worst nightmare come true.

Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology.

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind's common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant...

Originally published as a podcast novel