Personal Demons (Electronic book text)

Jake Helman, an elite member of the New York Special Homicide Task Force, faces what every cop dreadsOCoan elusive serial killer. While investigating a series of bloodletting sacrifice rituals executed by an ominous perpetrator known as the Cipher, Jake refuses to submit to a drug test and resigns from the police department. While battling a cocaine addiction, Jake startsaa high-pressure positionaasathe director of security at Tower International, aacontroversial genetic-engineering company.aBeneath the polished exterior of the corporate identity and the CEOOCowho has a reputation asathe frontiersman on the cutting edge of scienceOCois a deranged mind. As Jake delves deeper intoathis frightening laboratory, he discovers much more than unethical practices performed in the name of human progress.aSequestered in rooms veiled in secrecy is the worst crime the world will ever seeOCothe theft of the human soul. Horrifying and gruesome, this is a gripping, suspense-filled novel that offers intense arguments about science, ethics, and human life."