Runaway Heart by Stephen J. Cannell

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Stephen J. Cannell
• Title: Runaway Heart
• Publisher: ‎ St. Martin's Press; First Edition (July 11, 2003)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 376 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0312304269
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0312304263
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.52 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.42 x 1.26 x 9.6 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

As an Emmy Award winning writer, Stephen Cannell has created over 40 TV series, including The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, and 21 Jump Street. He is also a New York Times Bestselling author. In Runaway Heart, Cannell combines cutting edge biotechnology and action-packed suspense in a new and stunningly original thriller set on the outer fringes of medical science . . .

What would modern war be like if the front-line foot soldiers were not our sons and daughters, but genetically engineered animals with superhuman strength and speed, and just enough intelligence to understand commands and follow them blindly?

This is exactly the weapon being developed at a base in the desert by a top-secret government agency.

Attorney Herman Strockmire, a rumpled man with a very big but defective heart, champion of lost legal causes and the infuriating nemesis of giant corporate polluters, becomes involved when one of his employees is literally torn limb from limb by one of the experimental prototypes.

At great personal risk, Herman , his beautiful daughter and law partner, Susan, and ex-LAPD detective, Jack Wirta, ignore all threats and plunge headlong into harm's way, finding themselves involved in a nightmare beyond anyone's wildest imagination…

This science exists today. The future is now.

About the Author:

Stephen J. Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist, and occasional actor, and the founder of Cannell Entertainment (formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) and the Cannell Studios.

Cannell created or co-created several successful TV series from the 1970s to the 1990s. Creations included The Rockford Files, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, 21 Jump Street, and The Commish.

He was an Emmy winner and was awarded The Eye – Lifetime Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America.

Cannell’s success was made even more remarkable by the fact that he suffered from extreme dyslexia.

He died in 2010 from complications with melanoma.