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The Altherian Code
Das Rat des Neuen Reiches, a neo-Nazi organization based in Berlin, has teamed with Al Qaeda operatives to spread a genetically engineered virus with one genocide. And to locate their globally-dispersed targets, they’ve created a database capable of storing and screening the genetic code of the entire human race. But Alex Stone, the creator of the database, becomes suspicious when Katelyn Collins, the new love in his life, shows up in a database search of a particular gene. What’s worse is that some of the people on the list with her, members of the German Parliament, have recently turned up dead. Alex sets out to discover the link between the girl he fell in love with and the German Parliament members dying of heart attacks. The genome database project allows him to learn just enough to jeopardize his own life. But his love for Katelyn and a strong desire to protect her pushes Alex through extreme risks and tough decisions to unearth the truth. He engages himself in a series of dangerous maneuvers to discover what Krieg Pharmaceuticals has been fabricating - a genetic code of human annihilation, and with help from an unexpected source exposes a conspiracy of worldwide magnitude.
476 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2002
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About the author
Michael Jay
55 books2 followersMichael Jay is an American author, education advocate, and resort community developer whose award-winning memoir, Dog Water Free, explores the moral and emotional formation of a boy confronting love, loss, and responsibility during the defining years of adolescence.
Detroit-born, Michael attended Detroit Catholic Central High School with the help of an anonymous benefactor, graduated from Harvard College, and earned an MBA from Northeastern University. In his career, he has developed award-winning destination resort villages, including the Village at Squaw Valley USA in California (now Palisades Tahoe) and Tamarack Village at Tamarack Resort in Idaho.
Throughout his career, as a Harvard College Admissions Committee Alumni Interviewer, Michael has advocated on behalf of high school students across the Western United States, listening closely to the formative questions young people ask as they prepare for adulthood. That work deeply informs Dog Water Free, a coming-of-age memoir focused on the years when character is shaped long before clarity arrives. Michael Jay lives in Idaho.
AWARDS
Recognized as a Distinguished Favorite by the NYC Big Book Award Committee and honored with an IndieBRAG Medallion for Nonfiction, this full-hearted memoir has the engaging quality of a "truth is stranger than fiction" adventure.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dog Water Free captures the turbulent yet transformative years between childhood and early adulthood. Called a “mother-son memoir of lasting consequence” by a past president of the Women’s National Book Association (Lynn Henriksen), this memoir of formation follows Mikee, a middle child. His early adolescence is defined by a maelstrom of fateful events involving a solemn, prayerful bargain made in response to his mother’s terminal illness and then irrevocably altered by the sudden death of his father. It begins in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit and ends on the island of Nantucket before the candles are lit to celebrate his 26th birthday.
As Mikee attempts to interpret grief through a child’s flawed logic, the narrative traces how values are absorbed, not through strict instruction or adolescent rebellion, but through sustained observation of a parent living with dignity under pressure. Rather than framing maturity as escape or rupture, Dog Water Free locates meaning in endurance, stewardship, and the quiet inheritance of conduct that could only be endowed by an enlightened mother whose days are numbered.
Detroit-born, Michael attended Detroit Catholic Central High School with the help of an anonymous benefactor, graduated from Harvard College, and earned an MBA from Northeastern University. In his career, he has developed award-winning destination resort villages, including the Village at Squaw Valley USA in California (now Palisades Tahoe) and Tamarack Village at Tamarack Resort in Idaho.
Throughout his career, as a Harvard College Admissions Committee Alumni Interviewer, Michael has advocated on behalf of high school students across the Western United States, listening closely to the formative questions young people ask as they prepare for adulthood. That work deeply informs Dog Water Free, a coming-of-age memoir focused on the years when character is shaped long before clarity arrives. Michael Jay lives in Idaho.
AWARDS
Recognized as a Distinguished Favorite by the NYC Big Book Award Committee and honored with an IndieBRAG Medallion for Nonfiction, this full-hearted memoir has the engaging quality of a "truth is stranger than fiction" adventure.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dog Water Free captures the turbulent yet transformative years between childhood and early adulthood. Called a “mother-son memoir of lasting consequence” by a past president of the Women’s National Book Association (Lynn Henriksen), this memoir of formation follows Mikee, a middle child. His early adolescence is defined by a maelstrom of fateful events involving a solemn, prayerful bargain made in response to his mother’s terminal illness and then irrevocably altered by the sudden death of his father. It begins in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit and ends on the island of Nantucket before the candles are lit to celebrate his 26th birthday.
As Mikee attempts to interpret grief through a child’s flawed logic, the narrative traces how values are absorbed, not through strict instruction or adolescent rebellion, but through sustained observation of a parent living with dignity under pressure. Rather than framing maturity as escape or rupture, Dog Water Free locates meaning in endurance, stewardship, and the quiet inheritance of conduct that could only be endowed by an enlightened mother whose days are numbered.
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March 31, 2008
This is a first book written by a friend. I was delighted to find it on this site. The Alterian Code is an action book with a little bit (forgiven) of a love story. Because I know Mike, the movie that played in my head was filled with an alstar cast of people I know. My boss Heidi played a leading role. I suggest reading this book!
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