Description:
From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a high-concept near-future thriller.
A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite-a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects its host from illness, boosts the immune system-and even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost all human beings have a SymboGen tapeworm living within them.
But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives-and will do anything to get them.
Brief description:
Christine Lakin is an Earphones Award-winning narrator and acclaimed television actress, best known for her roles as Alicia Al Lambert on the hit family comedy Step by Step and as Joan of Arc on Showtime's Reefer Madness.
Review Quotes:
Grant is tackling some of the same themes here as she did in the Newsflesh novels...fans of that series will definitely want to check this new book out. But fans of Michael Crichton-style technothrillers will be equally enthralled: as wild as Grant's premise is, the novel is firmly anchored in real-world science and technology. Grant is well known to horror fans, but with Parasite, she's likely to acquire a new whole new group of readers.
-- "Booklist"