The Killer App: Would You Die to Be Young Again

In the near future, British Prime Minister Robert Hand is facing a crisis: the U.K.'s economy is in trouble because of the rising number of aging pensioners and the soaring cost of entitlement programs. But businessman Bill Haugan has a plan. A brilliant geneticist named Janet Icks has discovered a way of transferring a person's DNA%E2%80%94along with all the person's memories%E2%80%94into a newborn baby's body. Haugan proposes that Britain use this procedure to restructure the age of its population. This fast-paced techno-thriller address issues like overpopulation, the morality of scientific progress, and individual agency%E2%80%94and sets them against humanity's ever-present fear of mortality. And while the concept may be better than the execution and Haugan a cartoonish villain, Writher's novel is a compelling, chilling page-turner.