{ "item_title" : "Lifers", "item_author" : [" Keith G. McWalter "], "item_description" : "Electric with compelling action and trenchant social commentary and perfect for fans of Nikki Erlick's The Measure, this genre-straddling work of speculative fiction examines ageism from a new and challenging perspective. Lifers is a fast-paced, cautionary tale about the human quest for longevity that shocks and captivates as it unveils the realities of mortality, ageism, and the power of loyalty and love.--Ann Hagedorn, author of Sleeper Agent and Beyond the River In the year 2050, the man known as Zinn is on the run from the consequences of his greatest creation: an artificial genome that wildly increases the human lifespan. His Methuselah gene has gone viral, and he's being hunted by Adele, a semi-retired CIA biowarfare specialist who hopes to find a way to reverse the genome's effects before it's too late. As the longevity plague spreads, populations explode, economies are upended, and intergenerational resentments boil over. Adele searches for a cure while her former lover, Dan Altman, and his wife, Marion, wealthy political operatives both, become leaders of a movement of hundred-plus-year-old lifers and fight to create a sanctuary for the ultra-aged in the wilds of Colorado. Meanwhile, the Altmans' son, Nolan, thinks he has the answer to the longevity crisis: a suicide pill that kills after one year, a death wish algorithm that will influence the super-aged to take it, and his beautiful daughter, Claire, who is a spokesperson for the growing anti-lifer backlash and the head of the federal government's new Department for Longevity Management. Combining a hugely topical premise with a vein of social-political satire, Lifers evokes a world where society's ingrained ageism turns lethal and the fear of death is replaced by the challenge of living on . . . and on.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/68/463/276/1684632765_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.99", "online_price" : "17.99", "our_price" : "17.99", "club_price" : "17.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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