Immune Response

Suppose someone financed a project to create a drug-and-virus cocktail that could make people essentially immortal. Pop a capsule of the mix and Bob's your uncle. No more illness, quick healing from most injuries, constant cell repair, bye-bye wrinkles and old-age decrepitude. And it seems to work. Still, they've got to test it, preferably on subjects who don't know what's happening to them, who can be conveniently killed off later, and whom nobody's really going to miss. So that's what they do. And it all goes welluntil the someone starts asking questions. And that someone is turns out to be very hard to kill. Run-of-the-mill first-world problem coming up. Why it's on the list: Steve Perry is a master of the engaging, character-focused action flick and pitting worthy antagonists against each other. This novel is great entertainment, woven around a seriously plausible scenario of how something like this might go down. Contemporary bio-science and conspiracy fiction that doesn't need much suspension of disbelief in order to work; set against a background of the ordinary, where the bad things kind-of just sneak up on you and bite you in the butt. Read if you like: The idea of living like forever (because it's all-too plausible). Solid, yet 'open', endings (this one screams for a sequel, which may or may not be coming). Solid action from Steve Perryand what more could you ask for?