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Sharkman
Sharkman | Steve Alten
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Kwan Wilson was a high school basketball star living in San Diego when a tragic accident changed his life in ways no one could predict. He only looked at his phone for a few seconds, but that was all the time it took to crash his car into a telephone pole, the impact killing his mother while severing his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the waist down. After the accident his father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sends him away to live with his maternal grandmother in South Florida. Kwans new principal, anticipating his depression and isolation, tells him about an internship working at a genetics lab in Miami thats testing shark stem cells on rats in an effort to cure cancer and repair spinal injuries. Kwan declinesuntil he learns the beautiful Anya Patel is an intern at the lab. The good news is that the stem cells are curing their rat subjects; the bad news is it alters their DNA so much it kills them. When a promising breakthrough is made, Kwan risks his life and injects himself with the experimental stem cellsaltering his destiny and the lives of millions in the process.
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B00kNerd746
Sharkman | Steve Alten
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Amazing book only took 2 weeks

Paula3 It was fantastic 6y
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Paula3
Sharkman | Steve Alten
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Started this one with my boys yesterday. Intense foreshadowing so far. Love the narrator. ❤

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WanderingBookaneer
Sharkman | Steve Alten
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I wonder if today‘s #AudibleDailyDeal is in honor of #SharkWeek:
Kwan Wilson was a high school basketball star living in San Diego when a tragic accident changed his life in ways no one could predict. He only looked at his phone for a few seconds, but that was all the time it took to crash his car into a telephone pole, killing his mother and paralyzing him from the waist down. ⬇️

WanderingBookaneer After the accident, his father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sent him off to live with his maternal grandmother in South Florida. Kwan's new principal, anticipating his depression and isolation, tells him about an internship at a genetics lab in Miami that is testing shark stem cells on rats in an effort to cure cancer and repair spinal injuries. Kwan declines, until he learns the beautiful Anya Patel is an intern at the lab. ⬇️ 6y
WanderingBookaneer When Kwan takes the internship, he learns that the good news is that the stem cells are curing their rat subjects; the bad news is it alters their DNA so much, it kills them. But after a promising breakthrough is made, Kwan risks his life and injects himself with the experimental stem cells, forever altering his destiny and the lives of millions in the process. 6y
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