This is a book that I read quite a number of years ago. I read it again the last few days and found that I have actually forgotten everything in it except the scene that we found thirteen nude bodies of teenagers preserved in aquariums filled with formalin.
With genetic therapy at a very advanced state now, it is possible that there is technology here today to do what was claimed in the book. Suppose if there are experts with sufficient finance, I can see in my mind's eye that a pathogen could be released in major airports through the air filters targeted at any group predetermined by the designer.
It is one thing to test gene therapy on death row convicts that bring them to death sooner. It is another to kill off all adult male universally within three years. This idea brought to mind one of the countries described in Journey to the West: a country made up of females only. The only difference between the two books is: in Crime Zero, boys before puberty would be allowed to live and pass on their modified genes to their offspring.
It seems that we are too clever by half. A lone gun man who may be insane could massacre between sixty to seventy people within an afternoon. Sorry I did not keep up to date with the much revised number of casualty in Norway. Our fire power far out stripped our security and justice systems. I simply cannot equate that number of lives to no death penalty and a maximum of 21 years in jail, really I don't care if some psychiatrists diagnose him as insane. Suppose if those countries with such technology do not find a way to safe guard the use, then a few key individuals could be the cause of millions of deaths.
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