The Cassandra Complex — Brian Stableford

It is the 21st century, a world of rapid change and biotech threats and promises. World War Three, the biotech war, is on the horizon and the world as we know it is going to end. The fateful question is, who is going to choose what kind of future comes afterward, and who gets to live in this new world to come?

Lisa Frieman, a forensic researcher working for the police, is attacked in her apartment; Jordan Miller, a distinguished scientist whom Lisa once loved, has disappeared with a secret discovery. But what has he discovered that everyone wants?