Bøger af Jeff Lyon

Agatha and Ewan McAbe move onto their sailboat Escape to get ready for a cruise around the world. They are sleeping when a savage storm wrecks Dinner Key Marina in Miami. Escape breaks loose, is rammed by other boats and runs aground. Agatha is traumatized during the McAbe's struggle to survive.Ewan believes Agatha will recover during their trip. She abandons ship at Georgetown, Bahamas and flies to her sister Jean's house in Miami. Jean despises Ewan and begins working on Agatha to divorce him.Ewan hires wayward lass Ellie Hoyle and venturesome captain Ross Ryan to help sail Escape back to Florida in time to save his marriage. Escape's crew battles an onboard fire, smugglers and raging gales to reunite the McAbes. Everyone harboring the dream of escaping their mundane lives should read this white-knuckle and often hilarious tale of ocean adventure.

Seven years in the making, Altered Fates chronicles the saga of gene therapy, a medical revolution unparalleled in human history.

"The power of Lyon's book is that he has successfully returned the issue of newborn intensive care from the political or ethical to the profoundly, disturbingly personal. . . . A moving, impressive book." -Robin Marantz Henig, Washington Post