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The Duplication Factor by Terry Wright
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To Buy the Book |
The Duplication Factor by Terry Wright
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Grey Line Entertainment says: The Duplication Factor is a fine piece to read. Very broad, very rich. Expansive. Great characters, high stakes. A page turner. It has elements of Sci-Fi, thriller, and romance. This story could easily be adapted into a screenplay. It is filled with three-dimensional characters with rich back stories and justified motivations. On the page and scene level, this is an easy read. There's a nice command of description and dialogue as well as an ever forward moving story progression. The characters all have definite objectives. Structurally it is inventive, and emotionally it covers all the bases.
MEET WILLIAM TULIVER: William Tuliver, a 60 year old corporate tycoon, wealthy beyond belief, is terminal with leukemia. He needs a risky bone marrow transplant but no suitable donors are available. His entire family had died, his parents at the hands of Morris Brennon, the notorious Midwest axe murderer, his brother at the hands of the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. His only hope is to clone himself, but he'll need two things: a secret genetics engineering lab and a woman to give birth to him. He sets in motion a chain of events that will ultimately destroy the lives of everyone he loves, now and in the future. MEET THE GOOD DOCTOR: Eugene Marshal is an obstetrician at Blythe University. He cares for his patients, animal and human alike. But he makes a big mistake. He falls in love. MEET THE BAD DOCTOR: John Larson, director of the genetic research department at Blythe University, has a mission: to create the first human clone. Nothing will stop him, not morality, not ethics, not even the Department of Defense. William becomes his first subject. But there is another. MEET THE BAD GUY: Ax murderer, Morris Brennon, stained with the blood of a hundred- plus victims, is about to be executed in the electric chair at Menard State Prison. He gets a visit from Dr. Larson who wants samples of his cells. Oh yes, Morris will be back. MEET THE GIRL: Sally Mayfield, a plain-looking redhead of 30, wants a family. When she was a child, her destitute father jumped off a bridge, forcing her to live on the streets with her mother who soon died of pneumonia. Now, in love with William Tuliver, Sally wants to get married and have his children. But instead, he asks her to do the unthinkable. "THE BEST LAID PLANS OF MICE AND MEN OFTEN GO ASTRAY."
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is a story of betrayal, the pain of lost love, and the consequences of
human cloning. Be prepared to burn the midnight oil with this one.