The last heroes - Steven Grant

Change the world: this is the mission of the Last Heroes. They were ordinary men and women, until Professor James Carnell recruited them to test a process that would jumpstart human evolution and unlock their unique potential. A new breed, engineered to the next evolutionary rung and dedicated to curing the ills of the world. but now Professor Carnell is dead, his secrets forgotten or jealously guarded, and someone is stalking the Last Heroes - a man wracked by conscience and guilt, with his own secrets and a forgotten connection to Carnell. A man who believes they aren't an evolutionary leap but a dead end, their true natures unchanged by Carnell's process. In his eyes, they are corrupting and subverting the world instead of saving it. And they must be stopped...