TY - BOOK AU - Michie,David TI - Pure Deception Expiry Date SN - 0751537853 AV - PR6063 .O463 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - timewarner KW - Women geneticists N2 - In Expiry Date - Gene-therapy is as much about spin as it is about research, especially with such a discovery as NP3 - an anti-ageing drug that puts back by decades the expiry date written into our DNA. But not everyone is as thrilled as the media by Dr Lorna Reid's scientific breakthrough. Unless she is extremely careful, the anti-ageing guru is about to find her own life-expectancy drastically reduced...In Pure Deception - No one is more surprised than amateur singer Mark Watson, when he is talent-hunted to record an album with pop icon Isis. But within hours of landing in LA, Mark learns that in the world of celebrity PR, pure deception is par for the course and his dreams of fame and fortune quickly turn to a surreal nightmare. He is physically threatened by an animal liberation group outraged at the endorsement he and Isis are giving to a cosmetics company - a contract whose only get-out clause is death ER -