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    Change Agent

    Written by Daniel Suarez

    Narrated by Jeff Gurner

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.

    On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-and his transformation begins...
     
    In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution-preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance their technology.
     
    With the worlds of genetic crime and human trafficking converging, Durand and his fellow Interpol agents discover that one figure looms behind it all: Marcus Demang Wyckes, leader of a powerful and sophisticated cartel known as the Huli jing.
     
    But the Huli jing have identified Durand, too. After being forcibly dosed with a radical new change agent, Durand wakes from a coma weeks later to find he's been genetically transformed into someone else-his most wanted suspect: Wyckes.
     
    Now a fugitive, pursued through the genetic underworld by his former colleagues and the police, Durand is determined to restore his original DNA by locating the source of the mysterious-and highly valuable-change agent. But Durand hasn't anticipated just how difficult locating his enemy will be. With the technology to genetically edit the living, Wyckes and his Huli jing could be anyone and everyone-and they have plans to undermine identity itself.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 18, 2017
    ISBN9780451485113
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    Daniel Suarez

    Daniel Suarez is an independent systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies. He has designed and developed enterprise software for the defense, finance, and entertainment industries. An avid gamer and technologist he lives in the Western Hemisphere.

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    • 4/5
      Ken Durand is an interpol agent working as an analyst to track down bad guys using genetic editing to illegally alter living organisms in the year 2045, until he is injected by the bad guys with a change agent that alters his DNA to cause him to turn into the shadowy head of the criminal organization before killing him so that the authorities will believe the crime lord is dead. He manages to survive, however, and then sets out to reclaim his own DNA somehow, followed by both the authorities and the crime syndicate trying to catch or kill him.Suarez's books are always a fast ride, and this one is no different. Page turner, and the science is made out to seem reasonably plausible. I was a bit annoyed that Durand's former coworders are so clueless that they refuse to believe he is himself, which comes off as a necessary plot driver but not very plausible. I also would have liked a different ending, which I won't spoil here.Still, a solid effort- nobody writes a better techno-thriller.
    • 3/5
      Kenneth Durand works for Interpol tracking down illegal genetic labs. Millions of migrants are fleeing crop failures, there are civil wars and rising ocean levels. The gene revolution has bypassed America because of its backward anti-science ways and so Singapore has become the center of the new technology. (The author is a little heavy handed with his social commentary.) Genetic engineering is restricted, but an unscrupulous company has devised a way to completely replace the DNA of an adult human. They inject Durand with the change agent and he awakens in the hospital as an exact copy of Marcus Wyckes, the head of the company. What follows is a very prolonged chase scene, with both Interpol and Wyckes trying to capture Durand (who Interpol thinks is really Wyckes - it's complicated). There's a lot of world building, in fact there was too much for me and I wound up skimming. To me, a lot of this was just technobabble (like "photonic computing clusters" and "synbiotoxins"). There are also many intriguing details. "The car was a two-seater, a popular low-budget model called a Shrimp (because the body was grown from the same chitinous material as shrimp shells)." Meat is lab produced. Tattoos come and go. However, there was no character development and the only plot element is that Durand wants to get his own DNA back and to keep from getting killed in the process. This book was just OK for me.I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
    • 5/5
      This near future science fiction story talks about a future world that has changed immensely because of developments in biology and genetic engineering. In this world genes can be edited to create the baby you want. Kenneth Durand works with Interpol to shut down illegal labs that are custom-designing babies. He has been too successful. He has drawn the attention of the cartel who controls this illegal genetic engineering.Ken is injected with a "change agent" which rewrites his DNA and makes him genetically and physically the identical double of Marcus Demang Wyckes, the head of the Huli jing who is wanted all over the world for his many crimes. Ken survives the transition which wasn't what the Huli jing actually wanted. Only, now he needs to convince his colleagues in Interpol that he is not Wyckes. Since the technique used on him was supposed to be impossible, this isn't easy. He is also on the run from Wyckes' right hand man who wants him dead to get the heat off the real Wyckes. Meanwhile, Ken wants to stop Wyckes and his society-changing plans and get his own body and DNA back. He wants to get back to his beloved wife and daughter and will do what is necessary to make it happen.The story takes place in Southeast Asia which has become the center of the new science and society. On his journey to find Wyckes, Ken finds colleagues and assistance from a variety of sources including rebel ethnic groups who are fighting corrupt governments and scientists who might just be on the shady side.The story was fast paced but a little to scientifically detailed for this non-scientist reader. I have no idea how much of the science is possible but I found it all disturbingly plausible. Fans of hard science fiction will enjoy this story.
    • 2/5
      Am I the only one, who finds it highly inappropriate to mimic others accents?
    • 4/5
      When people can change their DNA, everything changes.

      The tech is a little incredible. The same for the government control of it. I hope if we ever get there, we will have adapted to the possibilities a little better. But it makes for a very intense story.
    • 3/5
      Have you seen face/off? The author clearly has and loved it. The plot has been updated to feature DNA sequencing. It's not a bad book and I had fun but do not expect anything thoughtful. All of the author's main characters feel so much alike but there's cool new tech which can be said is the real main character in all his books.
    • 5/5
      Another awesome page turner by this author. It was a tad predictable, maybe a bit formulaic, but nonetheless enjoyable from start to finish. It's full of human atrocity, and I really hope that's not the way the world ends up, but interesting to think about, for sure.
    • 4/5
      Roughly thirty years into the future, America’s anti-science stance has led to the rise of a new first world. Singapore is the new technological and medical center of the world. With brave new frontiers in biomedical science opened up, the genetic modification of human embryos is becoming commonplace. With this breakthrough, a black market develops, promising genetic modification beyond the legal; for parents who can pay.Kenneth Durand leads an Interpol team dedicated to stopping these black market geneticists. On the hunt for the kingpin behind these crimes, Durand becomes the hunted. Injected with a radical new genetic treatment, he awakens from a coma to find himself wearing his enemy’s face. On the run from his own task force, Durand must figure out how to change himself back, and stop this master criminal once and for all.This was a fun technological and medical thriller. I could see Michael Crichton writing something similar were he alive today. The science, while fictional, is based on current technologies. It is more than plausible that many of these technological advances (and their requisite benefits and drawbacks) will begin to emerge within the next few decades. This gives the book, for all its crazy scifi-ness, a grounding in reality.Lovers of realistic science fiction or technological thrillers will enjoy this book. Any one who is a fan of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, or even Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child will likely find a lot to love here.An advance copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.