Germline

A smart, slick and utterly brutal debut novel - think Hunter S. Thomson, thrown into THE HURT LOCKER, fighting alongside the replicants from BLADE RUNNER...

A hundred years from now, Russia and the USA are at odds again. This time, the cold war has gone hot. Heavily armored soldiers battle genetically engineered troops hundreds of meters below the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan.

War is Oscar Wendell's ticket to greatness. A reporter for the Stars and Stripes, he has the only one way ticket to the front lines. The front smells of blood and fire and death - it smells like a Pulitzer.

But Kaz changes people and the chaos of war feels a bit too much like home. Hooked on a dangerous cocktail of drugs and adrenaline, Oscar starts down a dark road that he won't be able to turn back from.

About The Author

T. C. McCarthy earned a PhD from the University of Georgia. He has worked as a patent examiner in complex biotechnology and for the CIA. In addition to being an expert on advanced weapons technologies, he has won Fulbright and Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Fellowships.