Cat Zero - Couverture souple

Rohn, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1938463668 ISBN 13 : 9781938463662

Editeur : Bitingduck Press, 2018

Synopsis

Artie Marshall is a scientist. She is perpetually underfunded, relegated to a damp basement, and besieged on all sides by sexist colleagues. Added to that she is immersed in a messy divorce. But she's never been happier: she recently landed her own lab, based in an eclectic think-tank housed in the leafy suburbs of North London. Artie spends her days studying an obscure cat virus that nobody else in the world seems to have heard of -- or cares about. But her arcane little research problem suddenly becomes worryingly relevant as local cats start dropping dead overnight. Matters get worse when people start getting infected too. Working with her right-hand man Mark, her vet friends and her street-smart technician, Artie races to get to the bottom of the ballooning epidemic. Unexpected assistance arrives in the form of two basement-dwelling mathematicians -- a sociopathic recluse and his scary, otherworldly savant mentor. When their mathematical models suggest that the cat plague might actually be more sinister than it first appears, Artie gets drawn into a web of secrets and lies that threatens to blow apart her lab family, undermine her sanity -- and endanger her own life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Rohn leads a cell biology research lab at University College London in the United Kingdom, studying how bacteria outwit human cells during infection. In her spare time, she moonlights as a science writer, journalist, broadcaster and pundit. She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap and on the Guardian, and has written for a number of outlets including The Times, The Guardian, Nature, The Telegraph, and the BBC. She also created and continues to run the science culture online magazine LabLit.com, which has been highlighted in the New York Times, US National Public Radio, the Guardian and the Boston Globe. 'Lab lit', a term she coined, is a tiny but growing genre of mainstream fiction about scientists and science as a profession (as opposed to science fiction). She speaks frequently to live audiences, and appears on TV, radio, on podcasts and as an expert in science documentaries. She is the aut

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bitingduck Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1938463668
• ISBN 13: 9781938463662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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