HISTORY'S FIRST CLONES:
ALVIN, BRUCE,
COLIN, AND DESMOND

Spawned in a dangerous 21st-century experiment, they were brought into a world where educated apes did manual labor and the government encouraged suicide as a method of population control.

Their existence as clones was unknown to anyone - even to each other - known only to their creator.

But then came the strange, haunting visions, the peculiar psychic sensations that drew them closer and closer together - revealing once and for all the mysterious secret they shared that would change the world!

As a young boy, Laurie Linton encountered a strange apparition: a ghostly man who urgently mouthed a message:

KILL MAGOBION!

Years later, as members of the UN Narcotics Security Agency, Linton and the beautiful Carol Kennedy were assigned a special duty: investigation of a mysterious drug which endowed its addicts with superhuman powers.

Now, that investigation leads Linton and Carol into a bewildering maze where past and future slide by each other at terrifying speed... where international peace teeters in the balance... and where all clues point to the top-secret Ministry of Internal Security and its prestigious, powerful leader -

COLONEL PIERS MAGOBION.

"One of the most subtle and stylish writers of science fiction - a delight to read!" - Sunday Times