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A drug that makes the blood of carriers a fountain of youth a psychopath who doesn't care how many bodies he leaves in his wake and an LAPD detective hopelessly compromised by a dark secret. Together they're an explosive mix that's going to shatter the city of Los Angeles into a million corpuscles.The most valuable commodity on earth is the blood of carriers. ThesA drug that makes the blood of carriers a fountain of youth a psychopath who doesn't care how many bodies he leaves in his wake and an LAPD detective hopelessly compromised by a dark secret. Together they're an explosive mix that's going to shatter the city of Los Angeles into a million corpuscles.The most valuable commodity on earth is the blood of carriers. These young people hold within them a virtual fountain of youth. Those with the right genes produce blood that when treated with a new wonder drug cures disease increases power and makes the recipient a virtual superman.It also makes the carriers targets. Blood farms filled with kidnapped children spring up around the country and Los Angeles is at the center of this blood-dealing world. The police are overwhelmed.Ellie Bautista became an LAPD officer specifically to fight this evil as a member of the Blood Squad but she has been consistently denied a transfer to the prestigious unit--until the day she and her partner are ambushed during a routine stop. The resulting events plunge her into an undercover world more dangerous than she could have ever imagined.A madman has found a way to increase the potency of the blood to levels previously unimagined. As he cuts a bloody swath through the already deadly world of blood cartels Ellie is the only hope to stop him before the body count rises.(less)