Description

Hewed out-of a freezing hill 1000 kilometers from the North Pole, the Doomsday Seed Vault was made to guard our planetis valuable assortment of vegetables from rising ocean levels, sailing nuclear holocaust, asteroids, and every other imaginable catastrophe. But no castle, however distant or carefully built, may force away individual problem and guys who've managed to get their business to achieve control of the planet's food supply. Dinah Pelerin had no idea when she quit sunlit Hawaii on an undercover truth-finding mission for the seed container in Longyearbyen, Norway, that she'd obtain a crash-course in the politics of genetic engineering, or that she'd become involved in the marital problems of an American presidential candidate and his enigmatic, Norwegian-born spouse. Or that the lifeless body might drop from the hotel sweat into her hands.