The J Factor
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Publisher Description
Welcome to the future, when organ transplants have become commonplace, and replacement organs are allocated according to a system that quantifies everyone’s conduct, health, and importance to society based on a point system: a Justification—or J—Factor.
David West, a new heart surgeon, inadvertently performs an unauthorized transplant on his patient . . . who is then murdered. Could it really be to protect the International Organ Replacement Corporation’s worldwide monopoly? Is this powerful corporation—so powerful it has treaties with every nation—really deciding who lives and who dies?
On the run for his own life, West meets a young attorney, Janette Compton, and together they struggle to unravel the truth about the murder and to expose the IORC before they and hundreds of others find out just how far IORC will go to protect its monopoly.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kanar's debut novel is an imaginative page-turner about a near-future society dominated by big business and big medicine. The book's title refers to the Justification Factor, the moral basis for organ allocation established by the International Organ Replacement Corp. (IORC), a powerful, multibillion-dollar industry that produces transplantable organs for patients with high enough J Factors. Societies around the world use the J Factor to control the actions of their citizens. In the U.S., a personal-records crystal implanted in every resident's earlobe stores vital information that can be quickly accessed by the government-administered Universal Medical Hospital and Pharmaceutical Care System. Many people have died as a result of J Factor policies, but IORC is so powerful that most world governments--and the U.S. president, who has an IORC heart--believe the organization can do no wrong. When Dr. David West, an ambitious young heart surgeon from Orlando, Fla., accidentally violates IORC polices and a man dies as a result, he and attorney Janette Compton set out to expose IORC's corrupt practices to the world. Packed with well-rounded characters, fast-paced turns, complex and bizarre medical practices, several subplots and tense courtroom scenes, this novel marks Kanar as a thriller writer to watch.
