Logan found employment as an agent of the GPA, where he had a talent for tracking down fugitive geneticists, some of whom were his personal friends or those of his mother. The story follows the protagonist, Logan Ramsay, after his release from prison. Ramsay committed suicide and scientists involved with the project, including Dr. At least two hundred million people died and gene manipulation became a crime over the entire globe. An unforeseen consequence of this act was that the genetically modified virus the locusts carried spread worldwide and interfered with seed germination.

Miriam Ramsay, who released genetically modified locusts in an attempt to improve rice crops in a province of China. Those that were free were tracked down and harshly interrogated by the GPA.Īs the novel begins, we learn about 'The Great Starvation,' an event caused by biologist, Dr. Biologists, who had worked in the field were now unemployed or in prison. The Gene Protection Act outlawed gene manipulation and research and allowed draconian surveillance of citizens.

Action takes place largely in the United States in the aftermath of 'The Great Starvation', a period of worldwide famine and death by starvation, when gene editing has become a federal crime. The protagonist is the fictional Logan Ramsay, an agent of the Gene Protection Agency or GPA. Upgrade was #6 on the New York Times Best Sellers list in the first week of publication in the category of Hardcover Fiction. It is his tenth stand-alone novel, published three years after Summer Frost (2019).

Summer frost by blake crouch