Terminal Immortality (Paperback)

Terminal Immortality More than a decade earlier, in a secret, privately funded lab in Texas, old rats got young again. Young and healthy. Soon, the labs aged benefactor did as well and celebrated the triumph with his small staff of researchers. But they had solved the riddle of aging in a world incapable of coping with lesser discoveries and the implications were terrifying. Who would live? Who would not? Who would decide? What price would men pay to regain their youth? Burgeoning populations and dwindling resources made the prospect of indefinite lifetimes for billions untenable. The very structure of society relied on the seasons of life, the old making way for the young, sometimes reluctantly, but inevitably, that is, until now. So they secretly assembled those of like mind and set about keeping that fearsome truth secret. Knowing they could not do so for long, they devised an elaborate plan that when unleashed would change the world forever and most would perish. But a few would have life extended indefinitely, the beleaguered planet would heal, and the species would be saved. For so few to finesse such an event was improbable but the promise of eternal life was irresistible to those they needed and they planned well. Leveraging man's darker instincts one against the other to achieve their ends, the plan to decimate the global population was nearly ready and the end times were close at hand. Snatched from a troubled life for the secrets he holds, the reluctant hero is plunged into a bizarre web of corruption and deceit on the frontiers of biotech where the young get suddenly old and the old get young again. He is pitted against a conspiracy of evil that has seized the secret of immortality to seek world dominion. Along the way, he is seduced by an enchantingly vain genetics expert and partners with a hunted spy; he survives epic battles and gut wrenching betrayals and it becomes increasingly unclear who is the enemy. In the end, things are not what they seem and those with a lust for power that would enslave the world with the promise of eternal life are just pawns in a bigger game, as, it turns out, they all are.