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What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have as a common factor? Here politics, religion and bioscience collide in the latest novel from the master of the medical thriller. Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential demagogue whose support of traditional American values carries a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called to chair a sub-committee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views it as a keystone to his political future. As a consequence, Dr Daniel Lowell - inventor of a method that will take stem-cell research up to the next level - sees a barrier being raised before his biotech start-up. These seemingly opposite personalities may clash through the Senate hearings, the two men share one common failing. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his genuine concern for the unborn; while Lowell's pursuit of massive personal wealth and celebrity overrides any real considerations for his patients' well-being. Further complicating their confrontation is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed Parkinson's disease - that leads the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. However in wanting to utilise Lowell's new technology prematurely, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying ramifications of temporal lobe epilepsy - leading to seizures of the bizarrest order. Taken straight out of tomorrow's headlines, "Seizure" is a cautionary tale because of this age when new biotechnological discoveries are pulling us ever further into a promising yet frightening new world.
