Life Blood

Book Description:

New York filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey straight into the heart of a dark conspiracy, hidden deep in the mist-shrouded Maya rain forest of Central America, where a bizarre human experiment (including a baby factory) comes at a terrible price.
Idea points: In Vitro, Independent Film, Adoption, Fertility, Human Eggs, Guatemala, Peten, Maya, Mayan Pyramid, Vision Serpent, Jaguar, Baalum, Mayan Mothers, Movie Making, Copal...

Review:

Morgan James, a filmmaker, is unable to have a baby so she decides to do a short film on people who adopt. She finds that the process is long, drawn-out and tedious, but then she hears of some women who recieved healthy, white babies in just a few months. She sets out to investigate the adoption agency and from there it is as if Hoover followed a formula for bizzare human experiment novels. There is the obiligatory vague person wandering around the doctors complex, the mysterious doctor who travels back forth between Central America and New York and Morgan, who upon discovering that her cousin is in the clutches of this madman, immediately goes to South America to resuce her, even though she has no proof that that is where her cousin is. It is so predictable that you can almost finish writing it for him after a certain point in the book. Some of the things that he has his characters doing are so stupid you want to slap them. This would make a great emergency book, you know the one that you keep in your glovebox in case you have a flat tire and are waiting for help.