Description:Boston Police Lieutenant Jonas Brant is in turmoil. Haunted by his last case and tortured by dark thoughts, he is on the edge. He is wounded. Bullet fragments lie deep within the fissures of his brain. His wife is not long dead and his young son is a handful. All he’s got is being a cop.
When a woman’s body turns up in downtown Boston, badly beaten and with a fatal gunshot to the head, Brant springs into action.
Teamed with rookie detectives Katy Malloy and John Clatterback, Brant dives into one of the most baffling investigations of his career. He enters the murky sphere of molecular medicine and onto the frontline of the race to repair human genes that cause illness. It is a world he knows nothing about, a world of great upheaval and a world with the promise of millions of dollars to the winner.
With the arrival of Russian gangster Sergei Volodin on the scene, the investigation takes a different turn. Volodin isn’t in the mood to bargain. He’s intelligent, he’s ruthless and he’s got Brant in his sights. The body count begins to rise.
Brant’s journey to the wilds of Maine and the crimes he uncovers is breathtaking in scope. How does a good cop stay good when so much of the world around him resides within the shadows?
The Kill Gene introduces Jonas Brant in a story exploring the very question of what it means to be human.