02546cam a2200361 4500 436685727 TxAuBib 20200928120000.0 191213s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019057674 9780593197639 HRD 27.00 0593197631 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib Mooney, Chris, (Chris C.) Blood world [BOOK] / Chris Mooney. 1st ed. New York : Berkley, [2020] 436 pages ; 24 cm. "A novel"--Jacket. "A drug that makes the blood of carriers a fountain of youth, a psychopath who doesn't care how many bodies he leaves in his wake, and an LAPD detective hopelessly compromised by a dark secret. Together, they're an explosive mix that's going to shatter the city of Los Angeles into a million corpuscles. The most valuable commodity on earth is the blood of "carriers." These young people hold within them a virtual fountain of youth. Those with the right genes produce blood that, when treated with a new wonder drug, cures disease, increases power, and makes the recipient a virtual superman. It also makes the carriers targets. Blood farms filled with kidnapped children spring up around the country, and Los Angeles is at the center of this blood-dealing world.The police are overwhelmed. Ellie Bautista became an LAPD officer specifically to fight this evil as a member of the Blood Squad, but she has been consistently denied a transfer to the prestigious unit--until the day she and her partner are ambushed during a routine stop. The resulting events plunge her into an undercover world more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. A madman has found a way to increase the potency of the blood to levels previously unimagined. As he cuts a bloody swath through the already deadly world of blood cartels, Ellie is the only hope to stop him before the body count rises"-- Provided by publisher. 20200928. Blood Fiction. Blood Therapeutic use Fiction. Drugs Fiction. Policewomen California Los Angeles Fiction. Anti-aging Fiction. Human trafficking Fiction. Ambushes and surprises Fiction. Abduction Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)