A Remedy for Death

After the strange kidnapping and murder of his family, Douglas Daulby, MD, a brain researcher/surgeon, is blackmailed into consulting at a shadowy research center in an East European dictatorship.

Once there, he finds the clinic has developed a methodology for ”tissue engineering” the renewed bodies of an international cabal of super-rich and political figures, who, as one puts it, intend to “begin life again, starting over as a healthy, horny 21-year old with all of this lifetime’s savvy already under your belt.” As one of sponsors puts it, the clinic is “a Jurassic Park for rich old guys.

”They need the expertise of Daulby and another person, an experimental psychologist, to transfer the donors’ memories and “animating essences” across to the mindless “Vehicles” that have been developed for them. When he refuses, they hold out the promise of re-animating his murdered wife and daughter . . .with him or without him there to protect them.