'I can't remember the last time I was so hooked by a book.

I couldn't put this book down.' - Laini Taylor, bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. 'With a backdrop of amazing science and technology, This Mortal Coil is a smart, page-turning thriller that gave me chills. With the pace and twists of a thriller, an emotional sucker-punch, the exquisite world-building of the best fantasy, and an imagined future that sci-fi fans will love, THIS MORTAL COIL has all the ingredients to become the next phenomenon in YA thrillers. But it's too late to turn back.Īs the pieces fit together it's clear there is one final secret that Cat must unlock. The closer she gets, the more she finds herself at risk from Cartaxus, a shadowy organization with a stranglehold on the world's genetic tech. Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina.

Unfortunately, there's no gene for RUN LIKE HELL. 1 secret hidden in their DNA.Ī breathtaking debut series about one girl's quest for answers in a genetically and technologically advanced future. (Nov.*Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018*Ī must read for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner.ģ billion lives at stake. Agent: DongWon Song, Howard Morhaim Literary. A genuinely shocking twist sets up a planned sequel. Despite some familiar elements in the novel-such as Cat’s struggles with her father’s motives, a love triangle, and her own identity-Suvada’s vibrantly imagined technology will spark readers’ imaginations. Suvada’s scary, action-packed debut novel barely takes a breath, and its exploration of what makes us human goes well below the surface. When Cole Franklin, a Cartaxus soldier, brings news that Lachlan is dead and Cat must decrypt a Hydra vaccine that he developed, she agrees to help. Only eating a victim’s flesh provides temporary immunity (“This is the Hydra virus’s cruelest side: It forces the healthy to eat the sick”). It’s dangerous outside: mindless, cannibalistic humans called Lurkers roam, and those infected with the virus explode at the final stage of the disease, spreading it through the air. For two years, 17-year-old Catarina Agatta, a talented hacker, has survived on her own in the Black Hills: her scientist father, Lachlan, was taken by the powerful Cartaxus organization after the Hydra plague brought humanity to its knees.

This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada