Nano - Cook, Robin

After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology, Pia takes a job at Nano, LLC, lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the picturesque foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Nano, LLC is ahead on the curve in the competitive woeld of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nanorobots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria. But the corporate campu is a place of secrets. When Pia encounters a fellow employee on a corporate joggin path suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon one of Nano, LLC's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant an the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the twenty-first-century - a treatment option for millions - or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?

Softcover. English. Pan Macmillan. 2013. ISBN: 9781447229889. 435 pp. Fair/good, stmap inside. Book No: 56378