BLOOD WORLD

Twenty years in the future, blood has become the ultimate currency.

The ultra-wealthy and powerful have access to a controversial and illegal procedure: a full-body transfusion that replaces their blood with blood taken from "carriers" - people, scientists believe, born with a set of gene or genes that through a new procedure, turns their blood into a literal fountain of youth. The youngest carriers have the most potent blood, which is why they're being hunted. Kidnapped. Never to be seen or heard from again.

Los Angeles is the center of this blood-dealing world, and Sebastian Kane is its most powerful - and most secretive - kingpin. His product, Pandora, is the best on the market. Everyone wants it, including his competitors, who want to find the man behind Pandora and take him down. When Sebastian's stepson Paul develops a more powerful blood product, it puts Sebastian's entire empire - and life - at risk.

Ellie Batista is a young cop living with a haunting secret: her twin brother - a carrier - was kidnapped as a child. Could he still be alive after all these years, having his blood harvested at one of the illegal farms located all over LA? Ellie has spent her adult life secretly becoming an expert on the blood world, hoping to be assigned to the blood unit of the LAPD. When she's given the opportunity to go undercover working for Kane, she'll risk everything to bring him to justice and find her brother.

BLOOD WORLD has the creepy near-future verisimilitude of The Warehouse with the crime world machinations of The Departed. It's a highly original premise with crisp writing and expansive world-building, making for a compulsively readable, incredibly commercial novel.

Chris Mooney is the international bestselling author of ten novels. The Missing, the first in the Darby McCormick series, was a main selection of the International Book of the Month Club and an instant best-seller in over thirteen countries. Mooney's third book, Remembering Sarah, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel by the Mystery Writers Association. He has sold over one million copies, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He teaches writing at the Harvard Extension School and lives in the Boston area with his wife and son.