The forever man: a near-future thriller

✍ Scribed by Pierre Ouellette

• Book ID: 100208989
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 222 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0804177198

✦ Synopsis

From the author of The Deus Machine and The Third Pandemic comes a fast-paced thriller about the power of harnessing life itself--and the deadly secrets it conceals.

Portland, Oregon, was once a beacon of promise and prosperity. Now it's the epicenter of a world gone wrong, its streets overrun by victims and hustlers, drifters and gangsters. Lowly contract cop Lane Anslow struggles to keep afloat--and to watch out for his brilliant but bipolar brother, Johnny, a medical researcher. Lane soon discovers that Johnny is part of an experiment veiled in extraordinary secrecy. But he has no idea who's behind it, how astronomical the stakes are, or how many lives might be destroyed to make it a reality.

Now Johnny's gone missing. To find him, Lane follows a twisting trail into a billionaire's hilltop urban fortress, a politician's inner circle, a prison set in an aircraft graveyard, and a highly guarded community where people appear to be half...