Runaway Heart

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank all my usual suspects: Grace Curcio, Kathy Ezso, and Christine Trepczyk for their tireless help in fielding the manuscript each day, Stan Green for his usual clever help on computers, and Dr. Roger Fouts for his insights on primate behavior. Dr. Wayne Grody explained the complex field of genetic engineering and Sandy Toye helped me on animal-rights law. Wayne Williams and Jo Swerling proved their worth as always, while my agents, Eric Simonoff and Mort Janklow, helped me chart the right course.

I am blessed with a wonderful group at St. Martin's Press: Sally Richardson, our publisher and guiding light, Charlie Spicer, my editor and workmate, Matt Baldacci, Joe Cleemann, Gregg Sullivan, and Mathew Shear all do a remarkable job to bring these books to you.

Finally, thanks to my three children: Tawnia, Chelsea, and Cody. You keep the smiles coming. And to my wonderful wife, Marcia; next year makes forty. I'd be lost without you.

Advances in genetic engineering, which one day could transform animals into subhuman slaves, are developing much faster than expected, and Congress must monitor the field. Our legal and ethical structures are unprepared for the question that will be forced upon us by human genetic engineering.

– Albert Gore, Jr. (D-Tenn.), 1982

The development of subhuman slaves by genetic transfer is a possibility and must be guarded against. There is no evidence that any government is now using the idea, but we must remember that Nazi Germany once experimented with eugenic theory against the Jews, slaves, and mentally retarded people.

– Testimony before the subcommittee on investigations and oversight of the House Committee on Science and Technology; from the Presidential Commission Report Splicing Life (1982)