CHRISTOPHER ANGUS

Christopher Angus is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Oswegatchie: A North Country River (North Country Books--2006), The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty: Wilderness Guide, Pilot and Conservationist (Syracuse University Press—2002), Images of America: St. Lawrence County (Arcadia Press—2001), and Reflections From Canoe Country (Syracuse University Press—1997).

For the past ten years, he has been Book Review Editor for Adirondac Magazine. He is also a newspaper columnist and has published more than 400 essays, articles, book introductions, columns and reviews in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Albany Times-Union, Adirondack Life, American Forests, Wordsworth American Classics, Adirondack Explorer and many more.

Mr. Angus comes from a literary family consisting of seven published writers. His father and mother, both professors of English Literature and authors of numerous works of fiction, were the best-selling collaborators of a series of anthologies published by Random House.

FLYPAPER

What could bring together three scientists working separately around the world, one on a bog body in Scotland, another on a mummy in the Taklimakan desert of central China and a third on ancient DNA sample found on a stone tool in the Rift Valley, Kenya? Their similarities are revealed in examining the genetic markers that define the human immune system.

But an unexplained anomaly occurs during the sequencing of genetic samples from each scientist’s work. Somehow, in the act of sequencing, the specimens changed; an impossible occurrence.