Lawrence Lapin
ASIN: B00EUSMJDO
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 274
This book was the inspiration for the Adam’s Chronicles series. The story tells how geneticist and surgeon Adam Boatwright uses his skills to prevent his wife’s impending cancer. Adam engineers a super virus that continually generates chemicals that fight off viruses and cancer. Adam’s life seems like he is the hero in a medical thriller. As a test, Adam infects himself with that mutant virus. But the side effect is prevention of aging, and he becomes virtually immortal. Convinced that long lives would destroy the human race, Adam becomes caught in a web of intrigue and conspiracy as he tries to stop profiteers from exploiting his super virus. This serious medical thriller reads like a romantic science fiction tale, though there is little need to suspend disbelief. Except for a couple of very plausible twists, it flows like a true first-person biography. The heroic scientist’s violinist ...