Flypaper

An unusual genetic anomaly found in a mummy from central China sends world famous archaeologist Dr. Marcia Kessler to a top secret meeting in Washington D. C. Soon, led by China expert Eric Logan, the scientists are on their way to retrieve a 20,000-year-old body frozen in a Chinese glacier that may contain the answer to the genetic mystery.

What ensues is a fast-paced expedition that must play hide and seek with Chinese authorities, while dealing with the crazy world view of a billionaire creationist, all set against the backdrop of a spreading world pandemic that brings anarchy and chaos to much of China and threatens to engulf the entire world.

The story comes to a climax in a remote Buddhist monastery in the Bogda Feng mountains of central Asia. With the world succumbing to a terrible illness, our scientists struggle to understand what is happening and to decipher markings on a strange object discovered in an ancient burial vault. Is it related somehow to the sickness? Is it proof of life elsewhere in the universe? Is it the terrible creation of an enlightened group of monks thousands of years in the past?

Flypaper is a highly contemporary science fiction thriller dealing with many current issues, including new DNA discoveries, the threat of a mutating pandemic and the debate between the world views of creationism and basic science.