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Immortals

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"The Immortals" by Andrew Neiderman is the story of Leon Enterprises, the manufacturer of unique youth-restoring products. Their products are expensive, are sold to a select clientele, and are sold directly at the customer's home. Mr. Leon, head of Leon Enterprises, enjoys and exercises power. He personally runs his enterprise with an iron hand and demands cult-like obedience from his employees. Faithful employees who make the required sacrifices are rewarded with renewed youthfulness, wealth, and privilege.

"The Immortals" is interesting because of its youth fixation -- a twentieth century replay of vampirism (customers' sustained youthfulness requires sustained financial drain) and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (employees' sustained youthfulness requires increasing depravation). Also, Leon Enterprises *could* be an allegory for organized crime's reputed sales of drugs like ecstasy and cocaine.

I am so glad that many of the older Andrew Neiderman books are being reissued as trade paperbacks. Even though I had read most of them, it was so long ago that it is like having brand new books to read and to enjoy and to delight me. I am happily looking forward to many more. And with that said...

Immortals was very intriguing. Just the cover alone was creepy enough! At first, I thought that Cynthia was being kind of whiny and overly-suspicious with her doubts and her complaints about Drake's new job and the people at Leon Enterprises. But as the book progressed, it turned out that Cynthia was right. Boy, was she right! I was impressed with how she really used her brain to help save the day at the end of the book.

This novel is full of twists and turns and unexpected surprises. I cannot recommend it highly enough for anyone who wants to catch up on Mr. Neiderman's backlist of great books. A wonderful holiday read!