Quinto's Challenge

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Book One in the Dawn of Immortality series: On the 100th anniversary of JFK’s challenge to land a man on the Moon, visionary US President Vince Quinto challenges America with an even more audacious goal: to conquer death before the century is out by making human resurrection a scientific reality. As the 21st century draws to a close, advances in genetics, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence converge to make Quinto’s Challenge possible. The final breakthrough—hailed as the Theory of Everything—is made by Deeley Carr, a young, shy quantum physicist recruited to work on a top-secret US government project. However, those privy to this highly classified science quickly realize that the power to bring about immortality is a double-edged sword—if it falls into the wrong hands, it would become the ultimate weapon of surveillance and control, a tool for the subjugation of all