The Last Fever

About this book

Haifa, 2034. Rivka Toledano once engineered HIV for a living — until the world decided her work was too dangerous to exist. Now her lab has eleven months of funding left, and the only thing worth saving from a biobank's culling day is a box of vials from a patient nobody wanted: Delphine Arroyo, a Chilean surveyor who has spent nine years bedbound, taking her own blood every morning and writing down her temperature. Three thousand days of one body, measured. Enough, maybe, to build something no one has managed: a working copy of a living human being. Delphine agrees on three conditions. The model begins to predict her worse days before they arrive. And in a committee room in Geneva, a man who has already watched one laboratory nearly end the world begins reading Rivka's name again.