Chromosome 6 Summary
Chromosome 6 This book is more or less two stories being told at the same time and then morphing together towards the end. It begins at a doctor's office in New York with the main characters Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery. They are presented with a case concerning the murder of a mob member, Carlo Franconi. They are rudely awakened when they go in for the autopsy and the Franconi body is missing. This intrigues Laurie and she is on a mission to find out who stole the body. While this is taking place in New York, Kevin Marshall from Equatorial Guinea is working on transgenic research with bonobos at GynSys. He deals with chromosome 6, particularly the short arm. Making these changes, he creates doubles for over 60 people and currently
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He has to identify the body and figure out how he was killed. He discovers what he thinks has been a liver transplant and asks for multiple tests to be done. Meanwhile, Laurie request a tape of the Franconi murder. When it arrives, she analyzes the recording so much that she makes the connection from the Franconi murder to the floater. This concerns her even more and when she goes venturing out to figure out who stole the body she gets beaten up because the thieves find out she is searching for them. When more abnormal things begin to happens such as bonobos not moving when they are being tracked on the tracker Kevin, Candace and Melanie decide to go to the island to check things out for themselves, even though they have already been pre-warned that things are fine and NO ONE is aloud on the island or they will be handed over to the Equatorian Guard. When they arrive at the island, the gate is up and there is no way to get over to the island and on there way back to the car they are caught by the guard. Since they worked there they were only given a warning, but the three didn't stop there. After a day or two passed, they ventured out again, but this time by boat and they end up getting stuck on the island because the bonobos
He has to identify the body and figure out how he was killed. He discovers what he thinks has been a liver transplant and asks for multiple tests to be done. Meanwhile, Laurie request a tape of the Franconi murder. When it arrives, she analyzes the recording so much that she makes the connection from the Franconi murder to the floater. This concerns her even more and when she goes venturing out to figure out who stole the body she gets beaten up because the thieves find out she is searching for them. When more abnormal things begin to happens such as bonobos not moving when they are being tracked on the tracker Kevin, Candace and Melanie decide to go to the island to check things out for themselves, even though they have already been pre-warned that things are fine and NO ONE is aloud on the island or they will be handed over to the Equatorian Guard. When they arrive at the island, the gate is up and there is no way to get over to the island and on there way back to the car they are caught by the guard. Since they worked there they were only given a warning, but the three didn't stop there. After a day or two passed, they ventured out again, but this time by boat and they end up getting stuck on the island because the bonobos