'The Extinction Gene': Pandemics Linked to Global Climate Change

Natural Gas Pipeline in Gobi Desert Threatens Ecosystem and Sacred Ground of Mongolia

CANYON, Texas, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- "The Extinction Gene" (published by iUniverse) by Robert Gross, M.D., takes readers on a journey that seems more fact than fiction. Walter Perriman, a Nobel Prize-winning paleontologist, finds evidence that extinction events throughout the ages were caused by a DNA sequence triggered by climate changes that destroyed resistance to pandemic disease. He discovers the gene in recently extinct and endangered species, and finds the gene is becoming active in human beings. He theorizes that current climate changes have again triggered the DNA to activity, but is murdered before he can present his findings.

Unfortunately, proof of Perriman's theory is threatened by the impending demolition of his Gobi Desert dig in order to make way for an immense natural gas pipeline, a deal outlined in a nefarious agreement between Russia and China called the Syberian Accord. Before his untimely (and convenient) murder, Perriman requests that his friend Allen Trevathan, a former U.S. Air Force officer previously stationed in Desert Storm and current ecologist, return to Mongolia before the dig is destroyed along with all the evidence that could save the human race from self-annihilation. Trevathan joins up with Professor Kim Do, Perriman's previous assistant, only to be hunted across the Altai Mountains in an attempt to save humanity from the claws of a greedy nation in pursuit of global domination at all costs.

Filled with espionage, environmental science, and enough action to rival "Indiana Jones," "The Extinction Gene" is a nonstop adventure deep into the heart of political corruption and scientific censorship that explores the nature of our very existence on Earth while also theorizing about the possibility of our collective demise as a result of ongoing climate change around the world.

Robert Gross is a practicing physician, consultant, inventor and author. He has earned master's degrees in electrical engineering, public heath, and tropical medicine. In addition to garnering a patent and speaking adamantly in support of systems analysis techniques in the practice of medicine, he has worked to discover alternative forms of energy with a grant from the National Science Foundation. Though "The Extinction Gene" is Gross' first novel, it has already received the Rising Star and Editor's Choice award, and Gross has published extensively in regional magazines. Please visit http://www.extinctiongene.com/ for further information.

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