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Mon, Jan 20, 2003--TIME magazine publishes an article entitled "Children and Violence: The Search for a Murder Gene." This article describes two early-teen brothers bludgeoning their father to death with a bat and theorizes that the brothers possess a defective gene resulting in too much of the enzyme monoamine oxidase A. The enzyme's action is to destroy a neurotransmitter that keeps a person happy and calm. This is one of many articles describing the search for a Murder Gene. In a world where government propaganda and modern science makes genetic code out to be deterministic--behaviors like entrepreneurship, sexual orientation, and Murder have all been identified. A universal holocaust is in motion to eliminate "The Code,"  the gene for murder, and 9-year-old Kyle and his father Jay are torn apart when Jay is found carrying the murder gene. As father struggles for survival within the walls of Murderer City to someday-somehow see his son again, Kyle must fight for his own freedom when he is caught in the psychological experimentation of a scientist bent on disproving The Code. MURDER GENES combines cutting-edge scientific theories with real questions about free choice, ethics, and morality, putting it all on a plate of sick and twisted for the reader to enjoy. ** ### From the Author Murder Genes is by far the most horrific, gruesome, and controversial piece I've ever written.  It is often described as a mix of Battle Royale, Divergent, and Hunger Games. You have been warned. Even so, the book at its core is a story about father and son who must decide if survival is worth the sacrifice of character, morality, and soul. Mikael Aizen