Nanotech promises all things: Immortality, invincibility, wealth beyond imagination--and the utter destruction of Mankind. One man has it-and no one knows who...

Mitchell Swain is the richest man in the world--until he announces the "ultimate technological breakthrough." The world stops for the press conference-and sees him assassinated.

No one knows what he was going to say.

Almost no one.

Jennifer Rayne intends to find out. A leading journalist covering high-tech, she was scheduled to interview Swain after the press conference. Instead, she investigates his murder.

What she finds is a scientist to whom Swain has funneled billions...

A desperate U.S. government following the same clues...

And a bizarre technology which promises invincibility, immortality, and the ability to destroy any enemy--or the earth itself.

Mankind has entered the final arms race.

It will last two days.

As this breathlessly fast-paced nanothriller unfolds, readers are taken on a stunning tour de force of nanotechnology's promises and perils--until the fate of the earth itself hangs in the balance...

* Winner of Nanotechnology Now's Editor's Choice Award *

"A nonstop adventure. This look at possibilities for the future is captivating--and just plain scary."

"So wholl direct the movie?"

"Plausible, scientifically accurate, and timely.... the most important piece of fiction written to date."

"Truly a visionary admonition of what may lie ahead, not to mention a page-turner you wont want to put down. Marlow is a man to watch."

"The story takes the reader through a roller-coaster of excitement guaranteed to keep you reading it into the early morning hours."

"Reads like a big-budget summer blockbuster."

John Robert Marlow is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Parade, Omni, and numerous other publications. His Nano screenplay (based upon this book) has been honored as a finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Program of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the organization which awards the Oscars), and may soon become a motion picture. This is his first novel.