Nancy Kress

  • OATHS AND MIRACLES
hbk: Tor / Forge, US, January 1996
pbk: Roc / Penguin, (London) UK, 1996,,, Tor, (New York) US, April 1997

ISBN 0-312-85691-9 (US hbk),,, 0-45-145577-0 (UK pbk)

novel, thriller, biotechnology, women


"Cadoc... Verico... Cadaverico...?

"FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh's trail begins with the slaughter of a Las Vegas showgirl, who dies with these words on her lips. Continues with the ritual disappearance of a crime family's black sheep son. And finally runs cold with the savage murder of a leading biotech scientist.

"If the Mafia was behind the killings, it was covering its tracks well. But what interest did the Relatives have in biotechnology? Where is the profit? And what is their scheme?

"Agent Cavanaugh is running out of patience. Running out of resources, running out of time. His first big case for the Bureau, with not a shred of evidence to proceed. Until a grieving widow disappears in Boston during the second attempt on her life. An ex-marine blows the whistle on a bizarre religious cult. And the race begins to uncover the sinister secrets of an outfit called Verico..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1996]


"There are three major plot strands and viewpoint characters: a government investigator's and a recently widowed reporter's separate probes of possible links between the Mafia and a biotech firm (with several murders in the recent past, and more to come), and a down-and-out blue collar guy's increasingly desperate attempts to extricate his wife and children from a weird Christian cult. Personal and public issues tangle, as mysteries proliferate." --Faren Miller (in Locus , Issue #421, Vol.36 No.2, February 1996).




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