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"Robert Cavanaugh, founder of the Clone Shopping Network, notices that business has started to sag. He tries to rejuvenate his enterprise by recruiting a talented microbiologist who develops a process to speed aging and cut production time of an adult clone to three years. Only a single glitch remains—the process won't work on clones produced from the DNA of dead people. Cavanaugh sends JB Balboa, his youthful computer security expert, to a resort in the Poconos in an attempt to enlist the aid of Abraham Lincoln Sweeney, the free-spirited clone of the sixteenth president and the only living source of the test cells that Cavanaugh needs.
On a different front, Cavanaugh clones the wife of Andrew Kline, the head of the Anti-Cloning Enforcement Agency (ACEA), as part of a devious plan to assassinate his nemesis. After the attempt fails, Kline begins a relentless pursuit of Cavanaugh, and finally finds the secret cloning factory. Kline falls prey to Cavanaugh's security force, but not before he initiates a sequence of events that leads to a decisive confrontation.
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Tom W. Miller, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%
Tone of book
- cynical or dry-wit
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Tech./$$$/Info hunt
Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying
- cloning technology
Story involving clones/duplicates?
- bad clones/duplicates
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Clones
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Earth setting:
- near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- some scientific explanation
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- description of breasts
How much dialogue?
- significantly more dialog than descript
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