Genocide of One - Kazuaki Takano

Kento, a researcher in a pharmaceuticals laboratory, discovers that his scientist father was working on a secret project on mutant cell research and virology. The work and the specialised computer programme that his father left behind on a laptop is however, far beyond his understanding, but from speaking to colleagues in research and from the amount of interest his father's papers are gathering from other agencies and the authorities, Kento knows that it's dangerous material and might even have been the cause of his father's death.  

At the same time, Yeager a military contractor, has been assigned to a four-man team on a mission to the Congo, where it has been reported that a new life-form has come into existence that could lead to the extinction of all mankind. Yeager's son is suffering from a rare disease, which undoubtedly is connected to Kento's father's research and the new life-form.

It's a good premise and the author ties it in well into the current economic, political and social structures in the world today. Unfortunately,  there is an awful lot of hard scientific and technological terminology painfully presented step-by-step throughout that the eye simply flies over. Philip Gabriel's translation isn't great either, the prose and dialogue feeling very leaden and unnecessarily over-described and explained. It would have been interesting to see where this was going, particularly in the Congo, but the writing feels far too long-winded to work at getting there. Unfinished.