What does the man who has everythingfame, fortune, a new love, and a new babywant for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Fr d ric tries every possible procedure to ward off death, examining both legal and illegal research into techniques that could lead to the imminent replacement of man with a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter...