Murder In Designer Genes

. The sun has just come up and
there is no fog along the beach. Suddenly all hell breaks loose. Retired
Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Richard Greenes wife, Jenny, discovers the
gruesome corpse of a man wedged between rocks at the foot of a cliff. There
should have been blood, lots of it, because one of the mans legs is missing,
severed just below the hip, the frayed edges of his jeans exposing a fresh
stump. All identification, including fingerprints, has been removed, the only
clue, a peculiar hand-embroidered design on the right-rear pocket of his jeans.
Was it a revenge killing, a hate crime, the work of a satanic cult?

Inspector Greene, in
to deliver the keynote speech at the International Forensics Symposium,
suspects the bizarre presentation is the work of ALOPEX, master of disguise,
scourge of Scotland Yard, purposely designed to draw the Inspector into another
deadly game of chess. When Alopexss first taunting
postcard arrives, the Inspectors worst suspicions are confirmed.

Alopexs
victims are always members of the medical profession who have through financial
influence or membership in the old boys club, circumvented the judicial
system, their patients deaths never avenged. His latest victim, Dr. Louis Bronsib, a lustful egomaniac, covets a Nobel Prize at any
price. In bed with organized crime, he ruthlessly tests an untried AIDS vaccine
in where he becomes Alopexs
quarry.

When the young son of a Greek
shipping magnate dies after mistakenly receiving a bone-marrow transplant
containing hyped AIDS-virus instead of Bronsibs
miracle designer genes, maliciously added by one of Bronsibs
discarded lovers, Bronsib becomes the target of a
mob-style hit while fishing in .

Taban, Alopexs partner in crime, accidentally overhears the plot
to kill Bronsib. Consequently, when the presumed
dead, wounded and unconscious Bronsib falls
overboard, Alopexs is waiting beneath the surface
with scuba gear to take him on board his luxury yacht, The Delphi. When Bronsib finally regains consciousness in Alopexs private clinic in ,
his real nightmare begins.

Alopex
leads Inspector Greene and L.A.P.D. step by step to the denouement of his
grizzly deed, then
just short of capture. After a spectacular, split-second getaway, Alopex and Tabans small plane
careens into the .

Inspector Greene, chagrinned Alopex has defied capture even in the end, has a gnawing
feeling in the pit of his gut perhaps Alopexs death
was just a little too perfect?