Research scientist Dr Hat Cousins is looking for a cure for old age. Having fallen from grace in the academic world, he's funded by Angels', rich businessmen keen to live a thousand years' And he almost has the answer within his grasp: radical gene therapy. Hat has taken it beyond the theoretical stage and he's survived.
But his luck runs out while he's at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean collecting primitive creatures that may contain the last piece of the puzzle. The pilot of his sub goes berserk and tries to kill Hat before committing suicide. The specimens are trashed. Then five other scientists in related fields die violently in the space of a week. An epidemic of murder by superbly trained killers has been triggered by what Hat has nearly discovered.
Hat has learned that there are some among us who are older than they seem, A vast conspiracy has concealed them and their death-defying secret. It's a secret they'll kill to keep.

From the bestselling author of Darwin's Radio comes a vivid and terrifying scientific thriller.

Stylish, atmospheric psychological police thriller featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme

It's January. A freak warm front, rolling north all the way from Texas, slips across the Great Lakes and covers Ontario. In a matter of hours, the entire population of Algonquin Bay has emerged to stroll the streets in spring jackets. But the warm front brings with it a dense blanket of fog -- and a sudden increase in the murder rate. It looks like the first victim has been raped and strangled by an obsessed former boyfriend. The only trouble is he's also an officer of the RCMP. The second body -- or body parts -- is discovered soon afterwards in the fogbound woods and this time, the victim is a US citizen which means the RCMP have to be called in. And with one of their number under suspicion for murder, the Horsemen are in no mood to co-operate.