Terminator gene / Ian Irvine.

Previous ed.: East Roseville, N.S.W. : Earthlight, 2003.

Suspense fiction. Terminator Gene opens with Security, on orders from the Global Congress, arresting Jemma. Her devastated daughter Irith is thrown onto the streets as an outcast. Her home and possessions are confiscated, her thesis on genome engineering failed; she is shunned by everyone. She finds herself fighting to survive in a dangerous and cruel twilight world. Although intelligent, Irith is naive and sexually inexperienced and soon falls prey to the mysterious Bragg. Taken by Bragg, she is smuggled into Britain, a nation collapsing under the sanctions of the Global Congress. There she encounters an anti-Congress group and ends up helping them to steal a file from a Congress data centre. The file contains the code for a deadly terminator virus but no one can decipher it. Only just ahead of Security, the group escapes through the flooded tunnels under the London Docklands and heads for New Orleans - a city slowly drowning under the rising seas and the place of the deadly gene's manufacture. As the hurricane of the century bears down on the sinking city, Irith struggles to crack the secret of the terminator virus and destroy it, before it wipes out all of humanity.