New York: Dial Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover - A medical thriller set in a peaceful Connecticut coastal town, where a pediatrician has moved with his young daughter for a new start. A teen-age prank at a top-secret laboratory where recombinant DNA testing is being carried out, results in an accidental infection - first of the teenagers, who show signs of psychosis - and then of most of the town. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-803717482.