| What would happen if every humanbeing presently on earth could live tothe age of 150--or more? In the remote region of Abkhazia, inSoviet Georgia, a distinguished Britishscientist, a figure of worldwide renown,has triumphantly completed twelveyears of ceaseless research and experi-mentation with the discovery of a sub-stance that will extend the longevityof every human being on earth from anaverage age of 72 toat least 150. With this astonishing--and abso-lutely convincing--premise begins thenew novel by Irving Wallace, his mostoriginal and breathtaking book to date. At the heart of the book lies thequestion of who will control this newsubstance, of whether it will be usedfor profit or for politics or for the goodof humankind. But beyond even thisquestion is the larger and more haunt-ing issue of whether indeed the pro-longation of human life on this scalewill be a blessing or a curse for thehuman race. As Professor Davis MacDonald fleesto Venice from the Soviet Union, whichwants to keep both the secret and itsdiscoverer, a fascinating and unusualgroup of people is drawn into the secretstruggle-~ Tim Jordan, an American engineer and publicist, who is trying to make a new life for himself after his wife s death by working for the committee organized to save historic Venice from sinking... |
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