Rating: 2 1/2 stars

Top microbiologist Dr. Richard Draman has put his life, and potentially lucrative career, on hold in order to raise money for his research on the rare disease of progeria—a genetic disorder that causes premature aging in children. A disease that has claimed his only child.

After the apparent suicide of a brilliant colleague, whose husband not only refutes the method of her death, but brings Draman a thumb drive of her research that might actually be the cause of it.

After reviewing what he determines to be potentially ground-breaking research on life extension, Draman brings the information to another top biologist, Dr. August Mason. Mason had abandoned similar research years before when he hit what he determined to be a dead end. Shortly after his meeting with Dr. Mason, Dr. Draman is arrested on trumped up charges of espionage against a big pharmaceutical company.

As the body count begins to mount, Richard Draman has no where to turn, and no one to trust. But, in order to save himself and his family, he must find the men behind the murders, before they find him.

Although it takes a while for the scene to be set, the pace picks up fairly quickly, and the action keeps the story moving forward.

The Immortalists has a nostalgic vibe in the vein of Turow, Cook and Flynn and, despite being a bit of the usual, it still packs enough entertainment value to make it worth a read.
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Paperback: 332 pages
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (December 6, 2011)
ISBN-13: 978-1612181509