The year is 2008 Violent crime has become an epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States Everything from the death penalty to liberal reforms has failed Nothing has been effective, until now Project Conscience promises to be the solution It is a bold attempt by a powerful group of scientists, politicians and senior law-enforcement personnel to use gene therapy to treat male criminals and cure violent crime But among their number are those with a more sinister agenda, who would go futher and turn the dream of Project Conscience into the nightmare of Crime Zero