The world had just exited the worst pandemic in a century when a small African village in the Olduvai region – the birthplace of human evolution – is consumed by death in a few hours. All indications point to a new infectious agent as death spreads rapidly across the continent. Mensa-minded Dr. Catherine Montoya, the CDC Director, calls Jack Cann, a 45-year-old virology Ivy League rock star, and now a professor at his Midwestern alma mater, to lead the team working to identify the cause. The NSA suspects it’s a genetically-altered, weaponized virus created by the North Koreans, tested in Olduvai, now out of control. While the world prepares for war, Jack and Seal Team 2 covertly search for evidence in a remote North Korean biowarfare lab, but Jack’s romantic partner, anthropologist Dr. Marla Qui, discovers the critical clue: the pattern of death follows man’s evolutionary migratory path out of Africa, and is now headed toward India and Asia. The research team discovers something more terrifying than any virus: a genetic ‘kill switch’ hiding dormant within the human genome since the dawn of evolution, threatening all civilization, leaving them racing against the clock to save their own lives.
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Michael Woods is a general surgeon and healthcare executive living in Lawrence, KS. He grew up in the Midwest and developed a love for the outdoors and life’s rich complexity and interconnectedness while working on a western Kansas ranch. He attended the University of Kansas, majored in Cellular Biology, did research in a virus lab, and minored in anthropology. He then completed medical school and general surgery training, becoming a board-certified general surgeon. Tiring of the practice and politics of medicine, he became a researcher at a major pharmaceutical company, where he became the global medical leader of a worldwide drug development program. In this position, he traveled the globe, giving him rich insights and a deep appreciation of other cultures. His background in anthropology, combined with his broad knowledge and experience in clinical and research medicine and extensive travel, is a potent combination for creating rich stories based on scientifically plausible- even factual- scenarios, as in Olduvai Countdown, his first fiction novel. Michael is a well-recognized author in the medical trade press, having written and published four non-fiction books in the healthcare genre. His most successful book is Healing Words, a best seller for the publisher, generating combined sales of 19, 000 in a niche market with very little promotion (First and Second Editions). He is the editor of a fifth publication that has sold 15, 000 copies. His non-fiction works have been favorably reviewed in the industry press.
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