About
Rip Gerber has published several international best-seller thrillers with RandomHouse/Heyne. His short story, THE LAST SUPPER, was selected for the ITW's first anthology edited by Lee Child. He is a biochemical engineer who’s spent two decades in technology, has taken three technology companies public (including one Bloomberg named “IPO of the Year”), holds an MBA from Harvard University, and has worked for the CIA. His latest book: "FOR YOU-MY LIFE MEMOIR," is a self-guided journal with over 700 prompts and questions to help capture and share one's life journey.
Featured Work
PHARMA
A renowned scientist is brutally murdered and leaves behind an undecipherable chemical formula. A thousand miles away, deep in the Amazon rainforest, two tourists are consumed by an enormous plant.
Only one man, a botanical chemist, suspects that these horrific attacks are related. He is on the verge of discovering an elusive cure to a deadly genetic disease, when soon bizarre attacks threaten his life. A Brazilian tycoon offers to help, and the chemist and his son are ushered to a remote lab.
Bioengineers race against time in the Amazon rainforest to manipulate the genetics of rare exotic plants; chaos ensues when rival powers---including a ruthless pharmaceutical giant and a Brazilian drug lord ---attempt to control the resulting DNA. The chemist, his son and a shaman are the only ones standing in the way of a biological outbreak---a deadly botanical evolution--- that pits man against plant in a devastating “natural reconstruction” of the entire planet.
One by one, the scientists must reach deep inside of themselves and pull together to stop the horror that their experiments have spawned.
