The theme of fountain of youth and an eternal life without aging or natural death isn't new, and the inevitable memory it brings despite all the differences is of course that of George Bernard Shaw's delightful work, Back To Methuselah. But other than the concept and a bunch of humans achieving it, there is no similarity with this one. Shaw went with optimism and a determined one, with mind devoted to mathematical thought as his concept of heaven, whether up or here. Tigner prefers Greek tragedies seemingly, or abrahmic punishments for aspiring to immortality. Either way, he goes gruesome rather than Shaw's guilt free delight.
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It begins at Eos, a Silicon Valley scientific research firm, named after the Goddess of Dawn.
Intriguing title, to begin with, and a first chapter that reminds one of more than philosophical rumination about fountain of youth, what with a group of CEOs of Eos, informing their multimillionaire financier, of having discovered halting aging process. The discussion as to why this shouldn't be made public, and the solution, couldn't be faulted.
Until they begin dying, inexplicably.
The third one is clearly a murder, but even before that, at the second gruesome death, the structure borrowed from Agatha Christie's work - titled And Then There Were None, finally, after the initial title Ten Little Niggers was changed to Ten Little Indians for the U.S. publication - becomes clear.
But that isn't all. They realise their having stopped aging might come to notice, so a change of identities is necessary, which have to be real. Which implies they implicitly and explicitly agree to allow the original holders of those identities to be finished off. Which is horrible enough.
And for yet another twist, one of those guys bumps into an ex-CIA close friend from college just before vanishing, but the friend intends to crash in with him, and that leads to the sleuth getting onto the trail of the killer, a sort of reverse of The Neverending Story - it's Atreyu chasing the wolf this time, and he's even named Chase! The wolf is named Tory, incidentally!
And of course, the wolf turns.
So one begins with a bored Hm, let's see, and is soon enough awake, gripped first intellectually and then more, and goes through horror, revulsion, heart pounding, fear, and more.
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After twists and turns, it ends quite satisfactorily, especially the part dealing with the wolf's victims turning around on him successfully, more than once and once for all the final time.
After twists and turns, it ends quite satisfactorily, especially the part dealing with the wolf's victims turning around on him successfully, more than once and once for all the final time.
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April 06, 2020 -
April 21, 2020 - April 23, 2020..
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April 06, 2020 -
April 21, 2020 - April 23, 2020..
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