If you were offered a way to cheat your own death, to spend more time with those you love, to be granted all the time you need to finish what you started, what would you be willing to give in return for such a gift? When a brilliant heart surgeon sets out to develop the world's most advanced artificial heart, he plans to use it to grant eternal life to the gifted. When a group of Texans decide to invest in his project, they secretly plan to trade immortality for third world oil reserves. But when the device is implanted in the daughter of the US President, nobody expects that the genius behind the control software would hijack everyone's plans. When the author began writing this story, you would have found this book in the science fiction section. Now thirty-seven years later, everything you are about to read is entirely possible, a frightening scenario of world domination and terror that will question your most personal beliefs about life itself.